On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 07:31:59PM -0500, Martin A. Brown wrote: > You have more sophisticated needs, because you wish to: > - shape total traffic to a specified rate AND > - give priority to some traffic I hoped classless merely meant it couldn't put stuff in different classes, but that it could still serve as a parent to a single other qdisc. Is there any fundamental reason why it can't, apart from 'code simplicity'? > You are in luck, because HTB (hierarchical token bucket) is a classful > token bucket filter. So, have a look at HTB [2], which is a part of > kernel 2.4.20+. I was avoiding it because it'd involve having to get a new version of iproute2 :) > If you are just learning traffic control for the first time, you will find > the tc filter commands frustrating, so consider tcng. I have written a > brief HOWTO article on using tcng with HTB [5]. Traffic control next > generation provides a much less opaque syntax (for humans) to describe > traffic control structures. Wasn't having too much trouble with tc, apart from the slightly confusing error messages from time to time. But I wasn't aware there were other tools out there, and if they support HTB out of the box even better, I'll give it a try. Thanks! -- Frank v Waveren Fingerprint: 21A7 C7F3 fvw@[var.cx|stack.nl|chello.nl] ICQ#10074100 1FF3 47FF 545C CB53 Public key: hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net/fvw@xxxxxx 7BD9 09C0 3AC1 6DF2
