Andreas, Since I understand your ASCII art and comments, I would very much appreciate it if you would draw what you see and criticize the following. Hopefully I'll better understand after that! TIA, gypsy tc qdisc add dev imq0 root handle 1: htb default 20 tc class add dev imq0 parent 1: classid 1:2 htb rate 4522kbit ceil \ 4760kbit burst 16k cburst 16k quantum 1500 tc class add dev imq0 parent 1:2 classid 1:1 htb rate 4522kbit ceil \ 4760kbit burst 16k cburst 16k tc class add dev imq0 parent 1:1 classid 1:10 htb rate 2487kbit \ ceil 4760kbit burst 16k cburst 16k quantum 1500 prio 1 tc class add dev imq0 parent 1:1 classid 1:20 htb rate 2034kbit \ ceil 4341kbit burst 10k cburst 16k quantum 1500 prio 4 For the curious, here is the status info: Received on imq0: qdisc htb 1: r2q 10 default 20 direct_packets_stat 0 Sent 7826237 bytes 27128 pkts (dropped 0, overlimits 3929) qdisc esfq 20: parent 1:20 quantum 1500b perturb 20sec hash: classic Sent 5634125 bytes 4648 pkts (dropped 0, overlimits 0) class htb 1:1 parent 1:2 rate 4522Kbit ceil 4760Kbit burst 16Kb cburst 16Kb Sent 7826237 bytes 27128 pkts (dropped 0, overlimits 0) rate 1728bit 4pps lended: 1954 borrowed: 0 giants: 0 tokens: 39532 ctokens: 37555 class htb 1:10 parent 1:1 prio 1 rate 2487Kbit ceil 4760Kbit burst 16Kb cburst 16Kb Sent 2192112 bytes 22480 pkts (dropped 0, overlimits 0) rate 1576bit 3pps lended: 22480 borrowed: 0 giants: 0 tokens: 71878 ctokens: 37555 class htb 1:2 root rate 4522Kbit ceil 4760Kbit burst 16Kb cburst 16Kb Sent 7826237 bytes 27128 pkts (dropped 0, overlimits 0) rate 1728bit 4pps lended: 0 borrowed: 0 giants: 0 tokens: 39532 ctokens: 37555 class htb 1:20 parent 1:1 leaf 20: prio 4 rate 2034Kbit ceil 4341Kbit burst 10Kb cburst 16Kb Sent 5634125 bytes 4648 pkts (dropped 0, overlimits 0) rate 184bit lended: 2694 borrowed: 1954 giants: 0 tokens: 54849 ctokens: 41180 _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc