I no longer use the filters, instead I use the netfilter module CLASSIFY to mark packets for certain queues.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Hanlon - Central Coast Internet" <john@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <lartc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 8:06 PM Subject: tc filter scalability > Has anyone tested the scalability of using tc filters? I have a box > which I require to traffic shape each individual client by IP Address using > u32 identifiers. My concern though, is that each client requires 2 filters > (data from and to the box) and there are a few hundred clients minimum. > Which means each packet may have to pass through a few hundred or possibly > thousand filters to determine its path. Is this going to give significant > latency issues? Or excessive server load? > > Is there a simpler way to restrict each client to a given rate (there > are three separate rates that different clients are assigned)? > > Kind regards, > > John Hanlon. > Central Coast Internet. > > _______________________________________________ > 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/
