I've done exactly this and am using it in that config for over 8 months now. I also wrote a manual chapter and a howto for LEAF Bering distro which is what I was using to do this. http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/buhtb.html My input: 1. TC will operate even if bridge is enabled on the enslaved devices. The queues/classes are at the physical device level interface. Only a few virtual devices have TC hooks like IMQ. 2. iptables will only work on the FORWARD table/chain in a standard bridge configuration. 3. If you want packets to be forced thro' iptables INPUT, FORWARD and OUTPUT chains, then ebtables can be forced to push packets one layer up to iptables. Example given in ebtables home page Packet Flow Diagram/Discussion page. Mohan -----Original Message----- From: lartc-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lartc-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martin A. Brown Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 10:12 AM To: Dhirendra Pal Singh Cc: LARTC Mailing List Subject: Re: [LARTC] TC Rules on a Bridge.. 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 _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
