On Thursday 25 March 2004 22:00, Paul Albert wrote: > Hi all - > > > > I've been reading for the past day or so about the traffic control that > is built into linux. I have a situation that I have not seen > documented, and I'm wondering how to handle this. > > > > I would like to have a group of users get a certain amount of bandwidth > in both inbound and outbound directions on our firewalling bridge. I > know that I can group users together to the same qdisc by marking their > packets through iptables to enforce egress qos. However, I'm not sure > how to go about doing this in an inbound direction. Initially, I was > thinking that I could use HTB, but this doesn't allow me to shape in > both directions (correct?). Indeed. You can only shape outgoing traffic. But you can use a router or a bridge and shape on both nterfaces. > The other part that is a bit confusing to me is that I would like to > aggregate both inbound and outbound traffic to a single number, say > 1Mbps. Could I use IMQ to tie the interfaces eth0 and eth1 together to > achieve this? Is there another solution that would satisfy this > requirement? You can indeed use IMQ, but it can crash rour system (I don't exactly know what can go wrong, but I think you can not drop locally generated packets in the IMQ device) 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/
