On Wednesday 17 November 2004 22:29, Darryl Cording wrote: > Hi, > <snip> > I am trying to build a Linux router that simply throttles everything > down to certain bandwidths. That is, no priority queuing ...etc, just > slow all traffic down to the specified rates, which are 64,128,256,512 > kbit. We want to setup the bandwidth on the router, then pump a known > load from an application through the router and see how that behaves > over various link speeds. (we are in a lab environment) Using the htb qdisc with ceil equal to rate ought to accomplish this. > Using kernel 2.6.5-1.358 I simply used these commands from Stef's > version of tc from docum.org, module sch_htb is loaded. > > tc qdisc add dev eth0 root handle 10: htb > tc class add dev eth0 parent 10: classid 10:1 htb rate 64kbit ceil 64kit You need to classify your traffic. tc qdisc add dev eth0 root handle 10: htb default 10 tc class add dev eth0 parent 10: classid 10:1 htb rate 64kbit ceil 64kit If you add the default parameter, htb will put any unclassified into classid 10:1. > I thought that would do the job, but my testing from uploading files via > ftp to another box, show nothing gets shaped. Right, because it wasn't classified. -- Jason Boxman Perl Programmer / *NIX Systems Administrator Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing | University of Florida http://edseek.com/ - Linux and FOSS stuff _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
