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From: "Pablo Sanchez" <pablo@blueoakdb.com>
Subject: RE: Reserving bandwidth with iptables
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 09:16:16 -0400
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org 
> [mailto:netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org] On Behalf Of zottmann
> Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 9:11 AM
> To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
> 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