WONDERSHAPER(8)

💖 WONDERSHAPER 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is wondershaper from section 8 of the System Manager's Manual, and she is that girl ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

wondershaper — a simple traffic shaping script 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

wondershaper [interface]
wondershaper clear [interface]
wondershaper [interface] [downlink] [uplink]

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So this manual page is gonna give you the brief rundown of the wondershaper script, no cap. And fun fact — this page was written for the Debian distribution specifically, because the original script literally does not have a manual page of its own. So we made one. We're generous like that 💅

wondershaper is a traffic shaping script that does a whole little glow-up on your connection. Here's the vibe:

• it provides low latency 👑
• it prioritizes bulk transfers below normal web traffic
• it prioritizes interactive shells above normal web traffic
• and it attempts to prevent upload and download traffic from affecting each other's ack packets

Put simply — and I mean simply — the wondershaper makes your internet connection more "responsive" 🫶

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🌈 SYNTAX 🌈

Here's a lil summary of the wondershaper syntax, because bestie you deserve a cheat sheet. For the complete description tho, you gotta go read the files chilling in /usr/share/doc/wondershaper. iykyk 📚

• wondershaper [ interface ] — shows you the status</c> of traffic shaping on that interface. like a vibe check for your network 🩺
• wondershaper clear [ interface ] — removes all traffic shaping from that interface. everything gone. clean slate. periodt 💀
• wondershaper [ interface ] [ downlink ] [ uplink ] — configures the wondershaper on the specified interface, given the specified downlink speed in kilobits per second, and the specified uplink speed in kilobits per second. this is the main character move 👑

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

The programs are documented fully by:

• /usr/share/doc/wondershaper/README.Debian.gz
• /usr/share/doc/wondershaper/README.gz

go read them fr fr, they ate 🍓

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

This manual page was written by Vince Mulhollon <vlm@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). iconic behavior honestly 💖

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that's the whole page bestie!! written for the Debian project, dated May 30, 2004 — yes she's a lil vintage but she still slays, mwah 💋✨🦋