Situation: PC at home, ADSL connection (Mxstream basic).
This form of ADSL is quite skewed (8:1) and has the annoying
peculiarity that uploads totally suffocate simultaneous downloads.
I''m trying to find out if this behaviour can be improved using
iptables MARK and fw filters. The following is not meant to be a realistic
scheduling scheme, the idea is more to get clear testresults and develop
a feel for tc (this is my first effort).
#!/bin/sh
tc qdisc add dev ppp0 root handle 1: prio
#2 fifo queues for our prio
tc qdisc add dev ppp0 parent 1:1 handle 10: pfifo limit 3
tc qdisc add dev ppp0 parent 1:2 handle 20: pfifo limit 3
#MARK 7 will go to q 10, MARK 11 to q 20
tc filter add dev ppp0 protocol ip parent 1:0 prio 1 handle 7 fw classid 1:1
tc filter add dev ppp0 protocol ip parent 1:0 prio 2 handle 11 fw classid 1:2
#tc -s qdisc show
My test relays a 200K mail to smtp.xs4all.nl (35 sec standalone) and
downloads a 900K file from dl.xs4all.nl (20 sec standalone).
The iptables rules are:
#!/bin/sh
iptables -t mangle -F OUTPUT
iptables -t mangle -A OUTPUT -p tcp -d smtp.xs4all.nl -j MARK --set-mark 11
iptables -t mangle -A OUTPUT -p tcp -d dl.xs4all.nl -j MARK --set-mark 7
and after the first test tc -s qdisc show gives
qdisc pfifo 20: dev ppp0 limit 3p
Sent 224934 bytes 201 pkts (dropped 0, overlimits 0)
qdisc pfifo 10: dev ppp0 limit 3p
Sent 19569 bytes 376 pkts (dropped 0, overlimits 0)
qdisc prio 1: dev ppp0 bands 3 priomap 1 2 2 2 1 2 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Sent 244503 bytes 577 pkts (dropped 0, overlimits 0)
Now I invert the marks and run the test again:
qdisc pfifo 20: dev ppp0 limit 3p
Sent 245102 bytes 587 pkts (dropped 0, overlimits 0)
qdisc pfifo 10: dev ppp0 limit 3p
Sent 241008 bytes 534 pkts (dropped 0, overlimits 0)
qdisc prio 1: dev ppp0 bands 3 priomap 1 2 2 2 1 2 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Sent 486110 bytes 1121 pkts (dropped 0, overlimits 0)
So everything appears to land in its intended queue.
The output from the testscript is:
Test1 Test2
Start mail 10:14:26 10:19:43
Start download 10:14:32 10:19:48
End mail 10:15:03 10:20:19
End download 10:15:21 10:20:37
and the time difference End mail/End download in both tests is still
almost the 20 seconds of the standalone download
A case of operation successful, patient dead (it was already dead to
begin with so nothing''s lost).
Your comments please.
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