How to monitor and limit the bandwidth of Tor connections?

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Hello,
Is it possible to monitor the clients that connected to my Tor server (Linux box) and limit the bandwidth they use?

Thank you.

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you should not monitor the clients, thus you shall not limit specific clients

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Hello,
Thank you so much for your reply.
I meant that, I want to see how much bandwidth is using by a client that connected to my server. For example, a client with the X.X.X.X IP address is using 4Mbs of the server bandwidth.
Is it possible?

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there are multiple solutions for metering network traffic - although you shall not use it for Tor because it is meant for anonymous communication

so possible, yes…
should you do it, no!

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Hello,
Thanks again for your reply.
I want to launch a Tor server for personal use and I don’t want all the clients to use the same bandwidth. What should I do?
Does Tor support traffic shaping?

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not that i’m aware of - this QoS/shaping has to be implemented by the OS of the Tor instance or a network device in-between the proxy and its client

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