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OpenVPN uses TCP connections to connetc &nbsp;to OpenVPN server. You can balance those. Otherwise it has so huge buffers that shaping is of almost no use.
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OpenVPN uses TCP connections to connetc  to OpenVPN server. You can balance those. Otherwise it has so huge buffers that shaping is of almost no use.

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Not necessarily. The recommended protocol is UDP, not TCP.
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Not necessarily. The recommended protocol is UDP, not TCP.

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Question is solved in another question I opened up.
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Question is solved in another question I opened up.

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Hi there, I'm looking to set up traffic shaping on OpenVPN. &nbsp;I'm aware that Openvpn has it's own shaper built-in, which is great, but I'd like to shape the traffic using tc (or any equivalent).<br />
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The idea is that I want to allow each connection to the service to get a set amount of bandwidth, lets say 1mbps or so upload and download. &nbsp;This way user1 will have 1mbs, and user2 will have 1mbps roughly speaking.<br />
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I tried shaping based on the private IP address assigned by OpenVPN when the user connects but I haven't been able to get that working.<br />
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How is this accomplished?
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Hi there, I'm looking to set up traffic shaping on OpenVPN.  I'm aware that Openvpn has it's own shaper built-in, which is great, but I'd like to shape the traffic using tc (or any equivalent).

The idea is that I want to allow each connection to the service to get a set amount of bandwidth, lets say 1mbps or so upload and download.  This way user1 will have 1mbs, and user2 will have 1mbps roughly speaking.

I tried shaping based on the private IP address assigned by OpenVPN when the user connects but I haven't been able to get that working.

How is this accomplished?

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