tc-wrapper

Wrapper & parser of linux tc command (traffic control).

Allow setting, consulting and deleting rules of delay, jitter, bandwidth and corruption

Installation

This module is installed via npm:

npm install --save tc-wrapper

Changelog

• 1.0.8: Removed network parameter and included srcNetwork & dstNetwork paramenters

Usage

The library export a instantiable class that has three major methods: del, get and set, for deleting, fetching and setting tc rules. Keep in mind that set method will call del before execute, so it will clean all the rules before aplying the new ones.

Allowed targeting

Currently tc-wrapper only supports ip traffic, and can match by network, src and dst ports.

Allowed modificators

• rate: Bandwith limitation, htb algorith will be used, tbf is not supported (yet).
• delay: Round trip time of packets, will be added as additional time.
• jitter: Delay variation normal-distributed.
• loss: Packet loss, in percentage.
• corrupt: Packet corruption, in percentage.

Clean all rules for eth0

import TCWrapper from 'tc-wrapper';
 
const tcWrapper = new TCWrapper('eth0');
 
tc.Wrapper.get().then((rules) => {
  /* rules looks like:
  {
    "outgoing": {
      "srcNetwork=0.0.0.0/0,protocol=ip": {
        "delay": "1.0ms",
        "jitter": "0.5%",
        "loss": "3%",
        "corrupt": "2%",
        "rate": "10Mbit"
      }
    },
    "incoming": {
      "dstNetwork=192.168.1.1/32,protocol=ip": {
        "loss": "9%",
      },
      "dstNetwork=192.168.1.1/32,srcNetwork=10.10.10.0/28,srcPort=80,protocol=ip": {
        "rate": "100Mbit",
      }
    }
  }
  */
});

Increase output packets Round Trip Time by 20 ms

import TCWrapper from 'tc-wrapper';
 
const tcWrapper = new TCWrapper('eth0');
 
const myRules = {
  outgoing: {
    'dstNetwork=0.0.0.0/0,protocol=ip':{
      delay: '20ms'
    }
  }
};
 
tc.Wrapper.set(myRules).then((rules) => {
  // Rules set!
});
 

Limit incoming bandwith of eth0 to 20 Mbit

import TCWrapper from 'tc-wrapper';
 
const tcWrapper = new TCWrapper('eth0');
 
const myRules = {
  incoming: {
    'srcNetwork=0.0.0.0/0,protocol=ip':{
      rate: '20Mbit'
    }
  }
};
 
tc.Wrapper.set(myRules).then((rules) => {
  // Rules set!
});
 

Enable debug of module

This module uses debug for debugging, you can enable debug messages of all modules with:

DEBUG=tc-wrapper*

Each module has custom debug label. Example:

DEBUG=tc-wrapper:TCfilterParser

Will only show debug messages about TCfilterParser module.

Run tests

npm test

License (MIT)

In case you never heard about the MIT license.

See the LICENSE file for details.