Hello List, I'm new to QoS/tcng/HTB and friends, so please forgive me if my question might be silly... After having read lots of HowTo documents I'm totally confused... The Challenge: ============== I'll have to deploy several "mirror" download servers (Linux) which must be able to handle a huge number of HTTP download requests (about 10k to 20k unicast requests per server within 120 min.) which will hit my servers . The mirror servers will be connected with 100MBit to the Internet backbone. Each "client" will download between 7MB up to 30MB per request. The download mirror servers will be directly attached to the Internet (no FW or router between, which could handle QoS for me). Of course will these download mirrors be specially hardened :-) The Idea: ========= I can not handle all the traffic at once without QoS, so I thought it should be possible to establish a traffic control mechanism to guarantee bandwith for each client download (e.g. 256kbps CIR up to 512kbps ceil). This should allow me, to "serve" all clients within 120 min, before a new download wave will hit my servers. If the available bandwith for HTTP traffic is used, clients shall not be able to start a download, until some bandwith is freed by another client who finished a download. Note: I would rather go with "tcng" than with the old "tc". The Problem: ============ While playing with tcng and HTB I managed to shape traffic (to limit the total bandwith for HTTP traffic to e.g. 50Mbps) but I did not manage to write a tcng configuration which guarantees a certain bandwith per client request. I must be able to assign (and guarantee) a defined bandwith to a client request, to make the downloads more predictable. My experiments so far only allowed me to limit e.g. HTTP traffic, which then was equally distributed to the number of clients, but this led to the usual "traffic jam" when too many clients initiated a simultanes download. Can anybody please assist me, or does anybody have a working "tcng" config file to do the job. Additional readings/comments/links (beside those listed in the LDB/Linux Traffic Control Howtos are also welcome.) Many thanks in advance and best regards from Austria Thomas _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc
