Hi, First of all, you have to know what you really want. What discipline will you use, what kind of filtering you'll implement. Such simple and not abstract questions will have the answers in the LARTC document if you read it profusely. CBQ or HTB? (I'd prefer HTB myself). u32 or FWMARK? Then you'll know which kernel options are to be set and which tools you'll need: iproute2 tc tool and iptables or just iptables. After that, everything will be just syntax and logics. On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 18:17:09 +0100, ncrfgs <ncrfgs@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I wished to shape the traffic that cross my ppp0 interface > so I asked around and google'd a bit and I headed in the > LARTC HOWTO. > > As stated in the early in the text, as the title implies, > that is an "Advanced" HOWTO and while by no means rocket > science, some prior knowledge is assumed. > > Unfortunately I found myself lost very soon and I'm > writing here in hope of some help. > > What I'd like to do, if it were possible with some > iptables switch, would be something like the following. > > iptables --insert INPUT --in-interface ppp0 \ > --protocol tcp --destination-port 80 \ > --source $SOMEIPADDRESS \ > --jump SHAPING --limit-to 10KBs > > Of course the last line is pure fiction =) but I thought > it would have explained what I wished to do pretty well. > > Shaping the traffic according to some --source switch > isn't a priority at the moment but it would be nice to, > anyhow. > > After some reading I found out that what I wished to do > is very likely called "traffic shaping". So I searched > the text for "shaping" and I found a note saying that, if > all I wanted to do is simple traffic shaping, I could have > skipped everything and headed to the Other possibilities > chapter, and readed about CBQ.init. > > Unforntunately, as stated below, by all means CBQ.init is > useful if the 'how and why' don't interest me, but they > do, actually. > > I tried both the CBQ.init and the HTB.init scripts but > they were huge, I wasn't able to understand them and I > didn't managed to find any information about how to > configure the kernel. > > Of course, I could check out everything in the QoS section > in menuconfig during the kernel configuration but I'd like > to understand which support I would actually use. > > At least, after having tried to read them, I realized > that, if I understood well, what I wish to do should be > possible only using tc, not iptables. > > Could you please help me to find out which commands to > type and how to configure the kernel in order to > accomplish my task? > > I'd need something in the middle between the "rocket > science" of LARTC and the "how and why don't interest you" > of CBQ.init. > > Scuse me if some of my questions are FAQs. > > Thanks in advance. > > Best regards. > -- > Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history. > ``Don't bother us with politics,'' respond those who don't > want to learn. > > -- Richard M. Stallman > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/linux-gnu-freedom.html > > > -- Aghi <ahollanda % gmail dot com> _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
