On Wednesday 15 October 2003 01:25, Stef Coene wrote: > 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. iptables -t mangle -A bla bla bla .. i classified all the traffic both for incoming and outgoing to mangle table. correct me if this is wrong stef .. Regards, Rio Martin. _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
