-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've written a minimal sort of Perl module that dynamically creates and destroys traffic control rules for specific IPs. I'm currently using it for a user bandwidth control application at a client site. The module essentially gets Ethernet device(s), IP address and in/out speeds as input and dynamically creates classes, queues and filters for controlling speeds on the incoming and outgoing interfaces. It calls /sbin/tc internally to make the rules. Similarly, when the user is logged out, the module deletes the rules that it made earlier. There are two issues I'm facing: 1. Is there any way remove filter rules without knowing the handle? I'd like to be able to remove the filter rule using the same set of data that I used to create it, but there doesn't seem to be any way to do that. Currently I'm parsing the whole ``tc filter show'' output to find out the handle of the rule I'm interested in, then using that handle in the ``tc remove'' command to delete the rule. Inelegant and inefficient, to say the least. 2. Can one have filter rules with handles > 800:fff? After the program has run for a while, the filter handle hits 800:fff, and then I can not delete any of the new rules at all. I'd be interested in knowing how to make tc reuse handles; failing that, increasing the number of unique handles would at least prevent my client from having to reboot the server every day. I'll be releasing the module under GPL once I've cleaned up the code and documented the methods a bit. Help on doing that appreciated. Regards, - -- Raju - -- Raj Mathur raju@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F It is the mind that moves -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQFE5b66yWjQ78xo0X8RAvNpAJ9kfvotl0Ife92qoyBPlqxC5G+cYACeNvAG rJT3lU8kd46ymbYcJwhb7e0= =oJKh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc
