[LARTC] Can I Classify Non-IP Traffic?

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On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 04:40:34PM +0000, Griff@BP3Web wrote:
> Background: Thanks to the LARTC howto, this list and Stef Coene's and
> devik's excellent web sites I now have an ethernet bridge (patch
> bridge-nf.0.0.7)  happily prioritising traffic (12Mbit) into 10 queues
> (9 for IP and 1 for non-IP) using a combination of  iptables (fwmark)
> and htb3 and sfq. Many thanks.
> 
> At the moment I'm filtering all non-IP traffic by setting the default
> queue on the htb root qdisc to my non-IP class and having my last rule
> in iptables (POSTROUTING) marks all IP packets such that htb places
> these packets into my lowest priority IP queue (note this is different
> from the default).
> 
> My question is can classify the non-IP traffic? Ideally I'd like to be
> able create a queue for IPX traffic.I know the tc filters command has a
> protocol statement but I can't find any information about setting this
> to anything but ip or ipv6.

Using ebtables, it is possible to filter non-ip traffic.

It is merged into the 2.5 kernel. For the 2.4, you need patches.

http://users.pandora.be/bart.de.schuymer/ebtables/

Greetings,

Ivo De Decker



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