Re: [LARTC] HTB and filters

[Stephane Ouellette <ouellettes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stef Coene wrote:

> On Monday 17 March 2003 22:01, Stephane Ouellette wrote:
>  
>
> > Folks,
> >
> >    after spending a lot of time experimenting with HTB, I found that
> > filters cannot be attached to HTB  classes...
> >
> > The class hierarchy I use is the following (for my upstream internet link):
> >
> >
> >               PRIO (with priomap that sends everything by default to
> > class 1:3)
> >             /   |   \
> >            /    |    \
> >           /     |     \
> >        1:1     1:2     1:3
> >      PFIFO    PFIFO    HTB qdisc (default to 4:100)
> >    
> The default class MUST be a leaf class.  A leaf class is a class with no child 
> classes.  If no filter is matched, the packet is dequeued in the default 
> class.  This means that no filter is tested so your packets ends in 4:100.  
> The filters attached to 4:100 are never checked.
>
> Stef
>
>  
Stef,

  If I understand correctly, all filters related to the HTB leaf 
classes should be attached to the HTB qdisc.

  It would have been nice to attach filters to parent HTB classes...

Stephane.