On Tuesday 05 August 2003 22:59, Patrick Turley wrote: > I can't find any documentation on the paramaters for the ingress qdisc. > Can someone help me? > > I have a number of filters feeding into my ingress qdisc, all of which > are rate limited, but I want to place a limit on the aggregate flow as > well. I don't want to monitor the sum of the flow rates - I want to > place a hard ceiling on the total possible flow that overrides > everything else. > > Any further details about the internal workings of the ingress qdisc > would also be very helpful. I've seen some stuff that suggests its > really a TBF in disguise, but I'm not sure. In particular, I'd like to > understand if the flows into the ingress qdisc can borrow from the root > and/or each other. Also, since the ingress qdisc is classless, how does > it work that each of the incoming flows are separately metered? (As I > understand it, filters only serve to guide packets into classes) > > I know that the IMQ device offers a more sophisticated way to do this > but, for now, that device is not available to me. > > I need answers to these specific questions, but I very much appreciate > any other information anyone would like to volunteer. The ingress qdisc itself has no parameters. The only thing you can do is using the policers. I have a link with a patch to extend this : http://www.cyberus.ca/~hadi/patches/action/ Maybe this can help. I have some more info about ingress in my mail files, but I have to sort it out and put it somewhere on docum.org. But I still didn't found the the time to do so. Stef -- stef.coene@xxxxxxxxx "Using Linux as bandwidth manager" http://www.docum.org/ #lartc @ irc.oftc.net
