On Wednesday 16 October 2002 15:11, raptor wrote: > |Yes, the imq device. This is a virtual device (you can have more then > | one) and you can add a qdisc to it. You can redirect packets to it with > | iptables and this can be done on each interface and for in and outgoin > | packets. In your case you have to create 1 imq device and redirect all > | outgoin packets to it and shape the imq device. > |More info http://trash.net/~kaber/imq/ > > ]- does later packets go to the device they was directed in the > begining.... i.e. if packet has to go out trought eth1 but i redirect it to > imq, the flow is shaped to the desired bandwith but after that it continues > its normal path.... i.e. flow become from this : > > eth0 <----> eht1 > > this : > > eth0 <--> imq <--> eth1 I's more like eth0 -> imq0 -> forwarding -> eth1 eth1 -> imq0 -> forwarding -> eth0 You can even do eth0 -> imq0 -> forwarding -> imq0 -> eth1 One of the disadvantage is the delays. The packet will travel thru 2 queues. So shaping on imq AND ethx is not such a good idea. Stef -- stef.coene@docum.org "Using Linux as bandwidth manager" http://www.docum.org/ #lartc @ irc.oftc.net _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
