On Thursday 13 January 2005 14:02, Johan Jordaan wrote: > In my search to control bandwidth on my network I found 2 projects.. > > 1. TC > 2. BWM Tools - http://freshmeat.net/projects/bwmtools/ > > This brings me to 2 questions... > > Firstly, can TC control bandwidth in both directions? It can shape outgoing traffic. If you have 2 network cards, you can shape in bothe directions. But it can also throtlle incoming traffic if you want (this is not so powerfull as shaping outgoing traffic). > I read that it > can only do 1 direction, which one I cant remember. Outgoing. > Can you monitor > the load on the queues you define? Yes, with external scripting. > Does TC support IPv6? Yes (I think) > Secondly, BWM Tools seems to queue traffic to userspace and use some > kind of kernel module to allow it through or not. How efficient is > bandwidth control using ip queing to userspace? BWM Tools doesn't seem > to support IPv6 :( I don't know how BWM works. Stef _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
