On Monday 05 May 2003 19:45, Graste wrote: > Hi, > > since this is my first post to this mailing list, I want to start with some > smaller questions: Are there any pages with information about the tc filter > command and its uses? I found no really helpful ressources when it comes to > u32 matches etc. Or are there man-pages available anywhere? I want to > filter clients by their hardware address (mac address) not ip: > > tc filter add dev eth1 protocol ip parent 1:0 u32 match ??? The only doc I have is http://www.docum.org/stef.coene/qos/docs/u32-filter.html > Is it only possible to check ip, icmp, tcp or udp protocol with the match > statement? Or could I determine the hardware address too? That would be > nice to know - because otherwise I think I have to use iptables to mark > packets, don't I? I'm not an u32 specialist my self. But you can use any bit in the packet to match. > Next (short) thing: Do the digits of the integer values that I use as > identifiers for classes using htb need to have some sort of "order"? Or is > the hierarchical order only given by the "parent x:y" statement (as I > expect)? The htb numbering has no special meaning. Only the parent option is important. Stef -- stef.coene@xxxxxxxxx "Using Linux as bandwidth manager" http://www.docum.org/ #lartc @ irc.oftc.net