Hi Tony, I guess I need it. Why else do U think I'd be mucking around with it? Here's the reason. I need to do some experiments on Differentiated services on Linux. I have a few pointers(ITTC and the diffserv website apart from a few RFCs), but most of the material is rather ill explained...especially with reference to packet marking on a per flow basis. For instance, could I do some form of priority queuing on my router based on marking (TOSbyte), which I do on the sending side...? I could then easily provide some kind of soft guarantee to my TCp flow. This could be pretty useful for my experiment... Thanks anyways, Regards Hari ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hariharan L. Thantry thantryh@cse.msu.edu 4642, S. Hagadorn Road, #E6 Dept of Computer Science and Engg East Lansing, MI 48823 Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824-1226 Ph(res): 1-517-332-2645 Ph(off): 1-517-353-6646 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Tony Nugent wrote: > On Sun Jul 16 2000 at 20:14, Hariharan L Thantry wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I didn't want to post this, but I've been kind of breaking my head trying > > to figure out the "iproute2+tc" package....and currently have loads of > > printouts...on the topic, some suggesting that I need to do an install, > > and some others (adv-routing howto) saying that it is already part of my > > kernel. However, that is the least of my worries. Can somebody suggest a > > couple of good documents that would make me understand what the whole > > thing does....?? > > > > Thanks > > Hari > > The iproute utilities are for advanced routing, almost certainly far > to advanced for the sorts of things you'll probably want to know > about. > > If you are very new to TCP/IP networking, then you need to cover a > fair wack of knowledge before you would be able to understand what > they are all about. > > For most purposes, all you need to do is stick with the basics: > > /sbin/ifconfig > /sbin/route > /sbin/ipchains > > When the time comes when you need to do complex routing on linux > boxes (like using multiple routing tables, route on fwdmark/TOS, > shape bandwidth, and manage packet queueing), then it will be time > for you to delve into this stuff. > > But if you are adventurous, then simply ignore what I'm saying and > get into it! :) > > Cheers > Tony > -=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=- > Tony Nugent <Tony@growzone.com.au> Systems Administrator, RHCE > GrowZone OnLine (a project of) GrowZone Development Network > POBox 475 Toowoomba Oueensland Australia 4350 Ph: 07 4637 8322 > -=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=- > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
