Hi, my situation: One internet connection 256 kbps uplink/downlink, pretty stable speed, a Linux router with three NICs (one to ISP, one to DMZ and one with VLANs enabled to our LAN). Each of three VLANs (1, 10, 11) is a region for me; id 1 gets guaranteed 128 kbps, id 10 and 11 both get guaranteed 64 kbps (both uplink and downlink). Simple configuration. After I read relevant parts of lartc (GREAT READING by the way, thanks!) and dozen other docs I was able to set this thing up: I mark packets in the iptables mangle FORWARD chain according to from where the packet comes and where it wants to go. It does work, but... On many places there is a warning that the shaping box must stay a bottleneck of the route so the queue can start to fill inside it and be shaped. Somethere they say a few percent of the upstream rate must be sacrificed, some say 25%... Okay, I tried to set a full 256kbit on a root HTB class, just for fun. No shaping. I set 230kbit then. Still nothing. The beast started to work as expected when I cut my line to 220 kb/s! It means effectively fall of the download speed from some 29-30 KB/s to about 26 KB/s as I measured it. I consider it to be serious, given our internet connection is VERY expensive (because of the unfortunate location of the company building, but we are working on the cost problem). I do not know whether I can afford such resource loss presently... Is it possible I got something not tuned well or is fall from 256 to 220 kb/s normal for usual shaping? Thanks in advance. -- \//\/\ (Sometimes credited as 1494 F8DD 6379 4CD7 E7E3 1FC9 D750 4243 1F05 9424.) _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc
