ESFQ allows this to be "per ip address", which solves the problem. I have not seen applications that grab many ip addresses for a single host, although this is possible. Quoting Mihai Vlad <mihaivlad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hello Martin, > > I have recently read your howto from: > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Traffi > c-Control-HOWTO.html > > I quote: > > "Of the many types of contention for network bandwidth, this is one of the > easier types of contention to address in general. By using the SFQ qdisc, > traffic in a particular queue can be separated into flows, each of which > will be serviced fairly (inside that queue). Well-behaved applications (and > users) will find that using SFQ and ESFQ are sufficient for most sharing > needs. > > The Achilles heel of these fair queuing algorithms is a misbehaving user or > application which opens many connections simultaneously (e.g., eMule, > eDonkey, Kazaa). By creating a large number of individual flows, the > application can dominate slots in the fair queuing algorithm. Restated, the > fair queuing algorithm has no idea that a single application is generating > the majority of the flows, and cannot penalize the user. Other methods are > called for." > > > > > > > > Can you post a real script using esfq, that splits the bandwidth equally > per > IP? > > The documentation on esfq is scarce and I have no idea where to start from. > > Thanks again for your time. > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin A. Brown [mailto:mabrown-lartc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 7:03 PM > To: Mihai Vlad > Cc: lartc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: Split bandwidth equally per IP > > Achtung! There is already an esfq qdisc [0] which does this! This patch > may be a good one, but since esfq already exists, perhaps you could try > that instead. > > -Martin > > [0] http://www.ssi.bg/~alex/esfq/index.html > > -- > Martin A. Brown --- SecurePipe, Inc. --- mabrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > _______________________________________________ > LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/ > > _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
