I'm using successfully all kinds of qdiscs, but i cannot find a solution to limit number of packets in one flow. Is there a way to do this with cbq, htb or tbf ? Not bandwidth in bits per second, but packets per second. Thanks, -- Nikolay Datchev On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Stef Coene wrote: > On Saturday 21 June 2003 14:56, Nikolay Datchev wrote: > > Hello ppl, > > > > I'm playing with the pfifo scheduler, its simple, and i cannot understand > > what's wrong. So, i have test machine, with one interface eth0, and i want > > to send no more than 3 packets/sec out of that interface, so i do: > > > > tc qdisc add dev eth0 root pfifo limit 3 > > > > And i get pfifo scheduler on eth0 with limit of 3, but it sends as many > > packets per second as it wants, without delay or drop. How can i get it > > throttle if sended more than N packets/sec ? > You can't do this with the pfifo qdisc. You only create a pfifo qdisc that > can hold 3 packets. But that does not mean that it will send 3 packets / > seconds. > Take a look at the htb, cbq or tbf qdisc for limiting bandwidth. > > Stef > > -- > > stef.coene@xxxxxxxxx > "Using Linux as bandwidth manager" > http://www.docum.org/ > #lartc @ irc.oftc.net > > _______________________________________________ > LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/ >
