On Tuesday 18 November 2003 00:23, Chijioke Kalu wrote: > Hi all, > > In my script, i assigned specific ip's to set classes, and assume by > default any other ip not matching my list of ips falls into the default > class. Consequently ave had occasions whenever systems that have ip's which > am sure fall into the default class, are in use, traffic tends to get > congested on "normal" classes... I suppose you use htb .... > NB. my default class has the lowest priority > > 1. Is this meant to be so, if not how can i correct it? It's not meant to be like that. > 2. Is it possible to know the sort of traffic passing thru the default > class? If possible improve the rate of other classes by matching important > traffic back to a higher priority class. No. Default class is used after all other filters are checked. > 3. Can I also match by mac-addresses? Yes : iptables + fw filter. Stef -- stef.coene@xxxxxxxxx "Using Linux as bandwidth manager" http://www.docum.org/ #lartc @ irc.openprojects.net _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/