Hi peter,
I can send you some pointers. these are really good documentations and you will
surely solve your problems with it. That''s why i am not repeating the
answers to
your queries here.
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Adv-Routing-HOWTO.html
http://cupid.suninternet.com/~kleptog/Packet-Shaping-HOWTO.html
http://www.davin.ottawa.on.ca/ols
http://defiant.coinet.com/iproute2
I hope that solves some of your problems.
Suhail
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Suhail Mohiuddin
COMET Networking Research
Columbia University,
New York
USA
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Peter Frischknecht wrote:
> I am bit confused on the use of tc and filters.
> I have gotten the traffic shapping to work, but I just need more help in
> subclassifying it.
>
> I need to prioritize certain protocol/port over a different one in the same
> subnet.
> Most examples show me how to allow for a certain IP address/range to have a
> cap on its bandwidth.
>
> It seems that I have all of the tools, but what confuses me the most is
that
> I don''t know how the filter goes about picking up a match.
> In iptables, the match is made from top to bottom. As soon as a match is
> made, the packet is dealt with. Is there a parallel application with tc?
> There is some mention of hash tables...what are those for?
> What about all of the different kinds of filter (u32, rsvp, route, fw)?
> What are they for?
>
> Btw, my setup is similar to a campus LAN, if anybody has already tackled
> this kind of environment, please let me know.
> I envision 3 different classes of service.
> 1 - General purpose web browsing (65% bandwidth, medium priority)
> 2 - Real time applications - games, dialpad, etc. (10% bandwidth, high
> priority)
> 3 - Everything else. (25% bandwidth, low priority)
>
> I am using a cache server in transparent mode to help with the network
> performance, but that is a side-note.
> Has anyone created an environment like this?
>
> If anyone can point me to a good reference, I would be more than glad to
> find the answer on my own. Fact is, that most of the material that I found
> is a plain reference (http://snafu.freedom.org/linux2.2/iproute-notes.html)
> or starter examples.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Peter Frischknecht
> Empowering Solutions, Inc.
> http://www.empoweringsolutions.com
> Phone: 864-6546544 x103
> Fax: 864-6540022
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