I dropped the entire PRIO setup and went with a single HTB qdisc with SFQs in each class, and it's working really well. Am I correct in the observation that the rate of a HTB class doesn't matter if all classes have different prios? Thanks to everyone for their help (and to the authors for the HOWTO)! -- 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