Hi everybody I've been using htb to shape traffic successfully for quite a while now but I am wondering if it can be improved in some ways. We are 3 companies sharing a 192Kbit connection to our ISP. I want each company to have a rate of 64Kbit and a ceiling of 192Kbit so that they can borrow from each other. Additionally we want ssh to have very low delays and be quite responsive. I also want to ensure that incoming DNS and SYN requests don't time out when all 3 companies is using all of their available 64Kbit. After all, if these packets don't make it through then the shaping can't be fair. This is how my setup looks. I have a bridge over 2 ethernet cards so that I can effectively shape incoming and outgoing traffic. I'm only showing filters for one ethernet card here. # root class tc class add dev eth1 parent 1: classid 1:1 htb rate 192kbit ceil 192kbit # I use 2Kbit from each company for SYN, ACK and DNS request, leaving # them with 62Kbit each tc class add dev eth1 parent 1:1 classid 1:10 htb rate 6kbit ceil 192kbit prio 0 # For each company I give ssh a higher priority # Company 1 (2, 3 has the same classes) tc class add dev eth1 parent 1:1 classid 1:21 htb \ rate 62kbit ceil 192kbit prio 1 # Class for SSH tc class add dev eth1 parent 1:21 classid 1:210 htb \ rate 32kbit ceil 192kbit prio 0 # The rest tc class add dev eth1 parent 1:21 classid 1:211 htb \ rate 30kbit ceil 192kbit prio 1 # ACK bit filter tc filter add dev eth1 parent 1: protocol ip prio 10 u32 \ match ip protocol 6 0xff \ match u8 0x05 0x0f at 0 \ match u16 0x0000 0xffc0 at 2 \ match u8 0x10 0xff at 33 \ flowid 1:10 # I don't know if this one is correct???? # SYN bit filter tc filter add dev eth1 parent 1: protocol ip prio 10 u32 \ match ip protocol 6 0xff \ match u8 0x02 0x0f at 0 \ flowid 1:10 # DNS filter tc filter add dev eth1 parent 1: protocol ip prio 10 u32 \ match ip dport 53 0xffff \ match ip protocol 17 0xff \ flowid 1:10 tc filter add dev eth1 parent 1: protocol ip prio 10 u32 \ match ip sport 53 0xffff \ match ip protocol 17 0xff \ flowid 1:10 # Company1 Filters (2, 3 has the same filters) # Filter for SSH tc filter add dev eth1 parent 1: protocol ip prio 10 u32 \ match ip dst X.Y.Z \ match ip dport 22 0xffff \ match ip protocol 6 0xff \ flowid 1:210 # Filter for the rest tc filter add dev eth1 parent 1: protocol ip prio 10 u32 \ match ip dst X.Y.Z \ flowid 1:211 If you think the above can be improved in any way or see obvious gaps in my shaping strategy please let me know. One final question I have. If one uses the u32 filter does the mask get XOR'ed or AND'ed with the incoming packet. Is there any easy way to calculate the mask? -- Roché Compaan Upfront Systems http://www.upfrontsystems.co.za