Hi peter, I can send you some pointers. these are really good documentations and you will surely solve your problems with it. That's why i am not repeating the answers to your queries here. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Adv-Routing-HOWTO.html http://cupid.suninternet.com/~kleptog/Packet-Shaping-HOWTO.html http://www.davin.ottawa.on.ca/ols http://defiant.coinet.com/iproute2 I hope that solves some of your problems. Suhail ************************************************************ Suhail Mohiuddin COMET Networking Research Columbia University, New York USA ************************************************************ Peter Frischknecht wrote: > I am bit confused on the use of tc and filters. > I have gotten the traffic shapping to work, but I just need more help in > subclassifying it. > > I need to prioritize certain protocol/port over a different one in the same > subnet. > Most examples show me how to allow for a certain IP address/range to have a > cap on its bandwidth. > > It seems that I have all of the tools, but what confuses me the most is that > I don't know how the filter goes about picking up a match. > In iptables, the match is made from top to bottom. As soon as a match is > made, the packet is dealt with. Is there a parallel application with tc? > There is some mention of hash tables...what are those for? > What about all of the different kinds of filter (u32, rsvp, route, fw)? > What are they for? > > Btw, my setup is similar to a campus LAN, if anybody has already tackled > this kind of environment, please let me know. > I envision 3 different classes of service. > 1 - General purpose web browsing (65% bandwidth, medium priority) > 2 - Real time applications - games, dialpad, etc. (10% bandwidth, high > priority) > 3 - Everything else. (25% bandwidth, low priority) > > I am using a cache server in transparent mode to help with the network > performance, but that is a side-note. > Has anyone created an environment like this? > > If anyone can point me to a good reference, I would be more than glad to > find the answer on my own. Fact is, that most of the material that I found > is a plain reference (http://snafu.freedom.org/linux2.2/iproute-notes.html) > or starter examples. > > Any help is greatly appreciated. > > Peter Frischknecht > Empowering Solutions, Inc. > http://www.empoweringsolutions.com > Phone: 864-6546544 x103 > Fax: 864-6540022 > > _______________________________________________ > LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://ds9a.nl/2.4Routing/
