How To Install wondershaper on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wondershaper on Kali Linux.

What is wondershaper

wondershaper is:

An easy to use traffic shaping script that provides these improvements:

• Low latency for interactive traffic (and pings) at all times
• Allow websurfing at reasonable speeds while uploading / downloading
• Make sure uploads don’t hurt downloads
• Make sure downloads don’t hurt uploads

It does this by:

• Limiting upload speed slightly, to eliminate queues
• Limiting download speed, while allowing bursts, to eliminate queues
• Interactive traffic skips the queue
• ACKs and tiny packets skip the queue

Configuring the wondershaper requires you to accurately and precisely determine your consistent upload and download speeds.

The wondershaper is the simplest, easiest to use, entry level, traffic shaping script provided by Debian.

After installing this package, read highly the detailed instructions: /usr/share/doc/wondershaper/README.Debian

There are three methods to install wondershaper on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install wondershaper Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install wondershaper using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install wondershaper

Install wondershaper Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install wondershaper using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install wondershaper

Install wondershaper Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install wondershaper using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install wondershaper

How To Uninstall wondershaper on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the wondershaper package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove wondershaper

Uninstall wondershaper And Its Dependencies

To uninstall wondershaper and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove wondershaper

Remove wondershaper Configurations and Data

To remove wondershaper configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge wondershaper

Remove wondershaper configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove wondershaper configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wondershaper

Dependencies

wondershaper have the following dependencies:

• iproute2

References

• wondershaper website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install wondershaper package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.