To attach a TBF with a sustained maximum rate of 1mbit/s, a peakrate of 2.0mbit/s, a 10kilobyte buffer, with a pre-bucket queue size limit calculated so the TBF causes at most 70ms of latency, with perfect peakrate behavior, enter: # tc qdisc add dev eth0 root tbf rate 1mbit burst 10kb latency 70ms peakrate 2mbit minburst 1540