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Linux Bandwidth Manager using Banjar (part 1)

DESCRIPTION

Banjar stands for bandwidth justification for administrator, an open source software that provides simple bandwidth management tools for internet cafe or small to medium network administrators.

Banjar will manage your uplink and downlink bandwidth, let you define your networks and packages and then limit bandwidth for each of those packages on each networks. For Indonesian, you will find this tool useful as it separates IIX bandwidth and International bandwidth. Easy application to install and operate.

LICENSE

LGPL as in GNU Lesser General Public License. In short, you can include Banjar as a library into your own application, re-publish it, modify it, change it, use it, sell it, for free or paid. You don’t need to provide the source code when using Banjar with your own software or any other software. Only when you modify Banjar source codes, you will have to provide those modifications accessible for public.

CONTRIBUTORS

Main developer is Anton Raharja (me me mee..). Once I got helps from Abdul Hanan and Moses Kurniawan, mostly for web UI stuffs. Every now and then WAN-DKI team (Asoka, Engkos, Dedi, Husen, Sindu, Imam) helps in a way that they can do best, bug me to code fixes, updates and more features !

REQUIREMENTS

Below are software required to install Banjar. Most of them are already available on main stream Linux distros.

  1. Linux (any linux capable of running iptables and tc with HTB)
  2. Apache (any version, not tested on other web server)
  3. MySQL or Sqlite3 (the default is Sqlite3)
  4. PHP4 or PHP5 (wrote on php4 but will work on php5)
  5. PHP PEAR and PEAR-DB
  6. iptables (load connmark modules, automatic on most distros)
  7. tc (iproute2 package)
  8. cron (scheduler for writing rules to a shell script and execute them automatically)
  9. svn (subversion package, this is optional, only for brave linux admin)

You may continue to installation part after all requirements above met.

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Banjar v0.8.1 Released

A quick post about Banjar, new release available here:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/banjar/?branch_id=72489&release_id=275145

Changelog v0.8.1 (update 5 April 2008)
– add collapse javascript for simpler node view
– add print and save link on package menu
– always show available slots instead of used slots
– fix bug on handling unmarked nodes
– fix bug banjar.sh doesn’t executed correctly from cron
– fix bug banjar.sh running paralel

Enjoy.

Banjar v0.8 Released

I just love iptables and tc ! I even create a simple, easy to install easy to use application to make you love them as I do :D

Version 0.8 contains several enhancements and a few important fixes. Starting from this version Banjar will not just for Indonesian (with IIX stuff hardcoded), but since admin can create a network based on destinations and each network can have their own packages where nodes (former name is client) can select multiple packages, Banjar will be suitable for those having problem configuring Linux bandwidth management or simply loves web-based user interface.

Other enhancements would be the addition of Sqlite3 support. This means that the router managing clients will not need MySQL installed, instead we use a text file based database, Sqlite3.

Don’t forget to always view the latest changelog here:
http://developer.peanutinc.com/svn/banjar/trunk/docs/CHANGELOG

Latest source code always available on svn repository:

svn co http://developer.peanutinc.com/svn/banjar/trunk banjar

RT/RW Net are most welcome to test the latest Banjar :)

Changlog Banjar v0.8 (update 18 March 2008)
– add support for sqlite3, and make it default, no mysql installed on router
– remove netfilter.iix as we have them on database now, network menu
– remove invoices from nodes
– each network has their own packages
– nodes can select multiple packages
– packet marking using connmark and mark, speed up performances
– fix cacti templates on contribs
– move config*.php to directory conf (conf.example)
– add support for network, group packages and nodes based on destinations
– major changes on database structure (upgrade available)
– add support for registry, dynamic configurations stored in a database table

Dive into http://banjar.sourceforge.net to get the latest source code, svn repository, view demo, statistics and tracker.

I need help, please contribute by simply submitting bugs and requests to tracker.

Bandwidth shaping in Linux is easy, we can help optimizing and perfecting the tool, we can help each other by contributing knowledges ;)

enjoy!

Banjar version 0.7

Banjar support both upload and download bandwidth now. No bandwidth wasted anymore :)

I also add priority support when adding or editing clients. Priority is a level that tells the traffic control to prioritize particular clients to get early left-over bandwidth. Level 0 for the lowest priority clients, 5 for the highest ( pay more ? ) and 2 is the default, normal.

Another interesting stuff I add is contribs folder on docs, that folder contains cacti templates and scripts needed to add banjar support on cacti. Tested on cacti 0.8.7a. Now you can monitor, view upload and download usage graphics on each client !

Freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/banjar
Sourceforge: http://banjar.sourceforge.net

Im happy, now I can go to bed yey !

Banjar version 0.5

Released version 0.5

Currently add simple theming support, soon will add plugins.

Download version 0.5 here.

Changelog can be found here.

Upgrade instructions from version 0.4.1 to 0.5 available on INSTALL here.

View source codes on SVN repository here (anonymous read access). SVN history logs can be found here.

View online demo here (username/password: admin/secret).

Please report bugs and/or submit feature requests here (in English please).

Banjar version 0.4 (and 0.4.1)

Released version 0.4

note: 0.4.1 release on comments in this posting

Download version 0.4 here, and version 0.4.1 here.

Changelog can be found here.

Upgrade instructions from version 0.3 to 0.4 available on INSTALL here.

View source codes on SVN repository here (anonymous read access). SVN history logs can be found here.

View online demo here (username/password: admin/secret).

Please report bugs and/or submit feature requests here (in English please).

cheers :)

Banjar version 0.3

Released version 0.3

Download here.

Changelog can be found here.

If you want to update from version 0.2, all you need to do is read README here and follow installation instruction step 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 9.

Don’t forget to make changes on /etc/netfilter.masquerade to better suit your network configuration after installing.

View source codes on SVN repository here (anonymous read access). SVN history logs can be found here.

View online demo here (username/password: admin/secret).

Please report bugs and/or submit feature requests here (in English please).

cheers :)

Banjar (initial release)

Banjar stands for Bandwidth justification for administrator, an open source software that provides simple bandwidth management tools for internet cafe or small to medium network administrators.

License: GPL

Download version 0.2

Download all versions here.

View source codes on SVN repository here (anonymous read access). SVN history logs can be found here.

View online demo here (username/password: admin/secret).

View README here. README contains requirements and instructions for installing banjar on Linux.

You might also want to view Banjar’s simple tutorial in Bahasa here.

Please report bugs and/or submit feature requests here (in English please).

Hav fun :)