Bandwidth Management Tools 200603080716

Bandwidth Management Tools is a total bandwidth management solution for Linux and can be used for firewalling, traffic graphing, and shaping.
Bandwidth Management Tools is not based on any currently-available bandwidth management software and supports packet queues, bursting, complex traffic flow hierarchies, flow groups, traffic logging, and a simple real-time monitoring front-end.
Main features:
- XML configuration file format:
- Class based traffic categorization
- POWERFULL for advanced users!!
- Firewalling:
- Support for all Netfilter features on host operating system
- Traffic shaping (flows):
- Shaping of blocks or single ip addresses
- Support for bursting based on user definable average period
- Multi-level shaping, you can define parents & grand parents
- Traffic logging:
- Logging of byte, packet, burst & drop counters
- Traffic flow grouping
- Misc:
- Atomic loading of firewall tables into kernel
- Supports more than 1 CPU
Whats New in 0.2.3 Release:
- Development snapshot 200602012132 has been released as stable.
- The URLs in graphs generated by bwm_graph has been fixed.
Whats New in 200603080716 Release:
- Logging directly to RRD files was added.
- Graphing was fixed, and error handling was improved.
- rrdtool was fixed so that if it is built at installation time, its also installed.
- New flow parameters were added: report-format, report-filename, and flow-mode.