On Tuesday 09 April 2002 01:51, Nigel Kukard wrote:
> hrmmm, ok after trying out "tc" for the last week i've noticed it is
> not even nearly as powerfull as netfilter.
Netfilter is designed to filter the traffic and the packets. Tc will man=
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the outgoing queue and has nothing to do with netfilter. =20
They both will drop packets, but with netfilter you can specify the packe=
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(so you can create a firewall) while tc will drop packets to slow down th=
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sender.
Tc is used to manage the bandwidth you can send (and in a special way you=
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receive). Netfilter can also do rate-limiting, but it can't do it as=20
powerfull as tc. Tc can share the bandwidth between classes, give packet=
s a=20
higher priority, ...
Stef
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