On Tuesday 14 October 2003 05:59, Rio Martin wrote:
> > None. Htb is an egress qdisc so it shapes outgoing traffic. An ingress
> > qdisc handles the incoming packets. And there is no queue for the
> > incoming packets, so you can't use htb. You can use filteres + policers
> > to rate limit traffic. Or you may take a look at the imq device. This
> > is a virtual device. You can redirect all incoming packets to it and use
> > htb on the imq device.
>
> Hi Stef,
> What do you mean by ' no queue for the incoming packets, so you can't use
> HTB'? For now i am not applying IMQ for the ingress, but using packet
> mangling under iptables to handle both incoming packets from internet and
> outgoing packets to internet. Is this not right? give me your opinion
> please, as far as i can see, there were no troubles using packet mangling
> to handle those situation.
What do you mean with packet mangling?
And it's not because there is no queue for incoming packets that you can't do
anything with time. The filter + policer setup can rate limit incoming
packets. Iptables can also do rate limiting.
Stef
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