On Monday 09 December 2002 22:45, Catalin Bucur wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Stef Coene wrote: > | Yes : child ceil <= ceil of parent (I just added it to the faq page) > | > | Stef > > So far, so good. But what if I want to give my clients a little more > bandwidth than (parent ceil) / (no. of clients)? > Let's suppose that I have 10 clients, and guaranteed bandwidth is > 5000Kbit. The parent ceil is 5000Kbit, childs' ceils are equal with > 500Kbit every each. But I want to give - for example - 800Kbit for each > one, so the parent ceil must be equal or greater than 8000Kbit. That is > the problem, I don't think is a such good ideea to give the parent a > ceil that is greater than guaranteed bandwidth; the result could be > unpredictable. The rule is : child ceil <= ceil of parent So a child with ceil = 800 kbit and a parent with ceil = 5000 kbit is no problem. Or are you speaking about rates : sum (rate child ) = rate of parent You don't have to follow this rule, but it will make things more unpredictable. 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/