From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stef Coene Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 14:07:41 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] Bandwidth management under linux Message-Id: <200501131507.41996.stef.coene@docum.org> List-Id: References: <8105747b0501130502342acdca@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8105747b0501130502342acdca@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 13 January 2005 14:02, Johan Jordaan wrote: > In my search to control bandwidth on my network I found 2 projects.. > > 1. TC > 2. BWM Tools - http://freshmeat.net/projects/bwmtools/ > > This brings me to 2 questions... > > Firstly, can TC control bandwidth in both directions? It can shape outgoing traffic. If you have 2 network cards, you can shape in bothe directions. But it can also throtlle incoming traffic if you want (this is not so powerfull as shaping outgoing traffic). > I read that it > can only do 1 direction, which one I cant remember. Outgoing. > Can you monitor > the load on the queues you define? Yes, with external scripting. > Does TC support IPv6? Yes (I think) > Secondly, BWM Tools seems to queue traffic to userspace and use some > kind of kernel module to allow it through or not. How efficient is > bandwidth control using ip queing to userspace? BWM Tools doesn't seem > to support IPv6 :( I don't know how BWM works. Stef _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/