Re: Iptables as packet shaper

["Wennie V. Lagmay" <wlagmay@yanbulink.net>]

If  im not mistaken TC require iptroute 2. If im already using iptables for 
my routing, firewall and NAT, do I need to disable iptables for iproute2 or 
iptables and iproutes works hand in hand

thanks,

wennie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Opperisano" <opie@817west.com>
To: <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: Iptables as packet shaper


> On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 02:51:55PM +0300, Wennie V. Lagmay wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Im using iptables to filter, translate IP address and forward traffic, 
>> Im
>> using squid delay_pool to limit client access per user and per network, 
>> but
>> im having a limitation with the squid delay_pool. I want to have a packet
>> shaper that can can allow my user to have 32 kbps during peer time and 
>> 256
>> during off peek time. Delay_pool is not capable of that. Can IPTABLES do
>> this kind of shaping?
>
> no--bandwidth management is not the job of iptables, it is the job of tc
> from the iproute2 package.  details are at:
>
>  http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.qdisc.html
>
> lartc also has their own ML:
>
>  http://lartc.org/#mailinglist
>
> -j
>
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