On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 12:37:48PM -0700, Gabriel wrote: > 1) when used on a router for shaping traffic done by > clients connected to it, shaping is done on the interface > connected to the cable/dsl modem. If I wanted to create > classes for every client on the network, I would have to > use iptables to mark packets (using -j MARK) and not > filters because, according to > http://www.docum.org/docum.org/kptd/ the shaping is done > after the SNAT, so all the clients would have the src > address rewritten with the public IP. Am I getting this > right? This page: http://mailman.ds9a.nl/pipermail/lartc/2005q1/014656.html (LARTC archive) contains a lot of useful links, one of them: http://ebtables.sourceforge.net/br_fw_ia/PacketFlow.png
Note right bottom corner of that picture. > 4) related to 3), I've tried to use a syntax like this: "tc > clas add dev $ETH parent 1:0 classid 1:1 htb rate $RATE > ceil $CEIL", where CEIL > RATE , but the max speed I > achieved was the RATE speed. After further reading, I found > out that you can't (well, you can, there's no syntax error, > but it's useless) specify CEIL for the class attached to > the root qdisc because it doesn't have a parent to borrow > from. So is there a way to simulate a variable bandwidth > link or should I just set RATE to the highest possible > value the bandwidth can reach? http://luxik.cdi.cz/~devik/qos/htb/manual/userg.htm (6. Priorizing bandwidth share) answers this question. Use qdisc inside qdisc. > That's about it for now. :) Thanks Thank you, -- _,-=._ /|_/| `-.} `=._,.-=-._., @ @._, `._ _,-. ) _,.-' ` G.m-"^m`m' Dmytro O. Redchuk _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc
