Dhirendra, Here are some past threads involving this question (and some answers to other questions which usually follow the "can I do traffic shaping on a bridge" question. Yes, you can perform QoS/traffic control on a bridge: http://mailman.ds9a.nl/pipermail/lartc/2003q1/007367.html Make sure you have bridge+nf (netfilter support) if you want to do any packet marking, filtering, mangling or NAT on the bridge [ a NATting bridge, he remarked incredulously... ]: http://mailman.ds9a.nl/pipermail/lartc/2003q1/007378.html ebtables and iptables interaction on a bridge+netfilter: http://users.pandora.be/bart.de.schuymer/ebtables/br_fw_ia/br_fw_ia.html Don't forget the firewall-bridge (helpful to understand bridge+netfilter): http://www.sparkle-cc.co.uk/firewall/firewall.html Now let's roll out that Euro currency, and build some bridges, -Martin : While I am still doing R&D with the ftp problem got another question to : bug you all..:) : : A) Okay if I am runnging Bandwidth management (HTB) using TC will it : work if the machine is a bridge also? : : B) I have tried it for my learning and it does slows down the traffic, : which I intented to do. But now since there is no eth0 interface, so : should I apply the rules on the bridge interface or eth0 should be fine. : I can see that eth0 works . But is it right to do it? : : Thanks again for helping.. : Dp : : : : _______________________________________________ : LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx : http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/ : -- Martin A. Brown --- SecurePipe, Inc. --- mabrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx