Reserving bandwidth with iptables

Reserving bandwidth with iptables

[zottmann]

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Hi !! 

Our management asked us to reserve some bandwidth to our vip users, and, as 
we use Squid proxy, I was thinking that we could achieve it by setting an 
outgoing ip address at the Squid proxy based on the user´s group, and 
reserve bandwidth at the iptables firewall based on this ip address. 

Is this feasible? Can we reserve bandwidth with iptables alone, or shoule we 
use another product as well? 

Thanks in advance, 
Carlos. 

RE: Reserving bandwidth with iptables

[Pablo Sanchez]

 

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> [mailto:netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org] On Behalf Of zottmann
> Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 9:11 AM
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> Subject: Reserving bandwidth with iptables
> 
> Is this feasible? Can we reserve bandwidth with iptables 
> alone, or shoule we 
> use another product as well? 

I use 'tc' (traffic control) to shape my 'classified' traffic and iptables
to classify.  When I researched 'tc', I saw you can reserve bandwidth and
have it dynamically allocated to other areas when it's not needed.

In short, look into 'tc'

Cheers,
-pablo

Re: Reserving bandwidth with iptables

[Randy Grimshaw]

Do you really want to reserve bandwidth, or guarantee QOS quality of service to the 'vip'?
<><Randy


<><Randall Grimshaw
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Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY   13244
315-443-5779
rgrimsha@syr.edu

>>> zottmann <zottmann@ig.com.br> 5/18/2006 9:11:18 AM >>>
Hi !! 

Our management asked us to reserve some bandwidth to our vip users, and, as 
we use Squid proxy, I was thinking that we could achieve it by setting an 
outgoing ip address at the Squid proxy based on the user´s group, and 
reserve bandwidth at the iptables firewall based on this ip address. 

Is this feasible? Can we reserve bandwidth with iptables alone, or shoule we 
use another product as well? 

Thanks in advance, 
Carlos.