This page explains the quantum & r2q values used in HTB in depth: http://www.docum.org/docum.org/faq/cache/31.html If you want to see my working example download this script: http://pof.eslack.org/archives/files/bw-shaper1.2.sh results achieved can be seen here: http://pof.eslack.org/graphs/ ...any commments appreciated ;) Regards, Pau Oliva On Mon, December 12, 2005 12:09, sujeet mulmi said: > thanks pal. > > i got the clue but i get confused in rates whether it should be the > total b/w or rate seperate for class id. > can you give me some hints on r2q too. > > Pau Oliva - pof <pau@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I usually use this as a rule of thumb: > > quantum = rate(in bytes)/r2q > > Note that quantum should be > MTU (normally 1500). > > > Best regards, > > Pau Oliva > > > --- > http://pof.eslack.org/blog/ > > > On Mon, December 12, 2005 7:32, sujeet mulmi said: >> Dear all, >> >> I'm new to traffic shapping although i have gone through marking >> and HTB queueing but i felt trouble in tc filter . I wonder if any >> one give me the hints about quantum or r2q. >> i guess quantum is used when two class has same prio and rate and want >> to give first priority between them and control the borrowing traffic. >> It should be set more than MTU too. But my question is that how can we >> set quantum exactly , i mean is there any calculation need to set this >> quantum parameter and its effect to r2q . Any changes we have to do in >> r2q parameter. >> >> Any suggestion will be apprieciated. >> >> thanks in advance. >> >> sujeet _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc