On Thursday 21 October 2004 09:23, Hariett Jones wrote: > tc class add dev $DEV parent 1: classid 1:1 htb rate ${UPLINK}kbit burst 6k This is for packets leaving device $DEV. > tc qdisc add dev $DEV handle ffff: ingress > > tc filter add dev $DEV parent ffff: protocol ip prio 50 u32 match ip src \ > 0.0.0.0/0 police rate ${DOWNLINK}kbit burst 10k drop flowid :1 This is for packets entering device $DEV. "flowid :1" is an other destination as "classid 1:1" in the previous line. Read "flowid :1" as "flowid ffff:1". > why does the download is being sent to class 1 which is limited by uplink ? > why the rate is being mentioned in filter and in class ? For ingress, the destination is not important. It's the policer that counts and that limits the matching packets to a certain rate (${DOWNLINK}kbit in this example). Stef -- stef.coene@xxxxxxxxx "Using Linux as bandwidth manager" http://www.docum.org/ _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/