[LARTC] Wrapping prio in tbf

* [LARTC] Wrapping prio in tbf
@ 2004-05-04 13:05 John Meeks
  2004-05-04 16:18 ` Stef Coene
                   ` (3 more replies)
  0 siblings, 4 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: John Meeks @ 2004-05-04 13:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: lartc

The manual says (about prio):

> Because it doesn't actually shape, the same warning as for SFQ holds:
> either use it only if your physical link is really full or wrap it
> inside a classful qdisc that does shape. The latter holds for almost all
> cable modems and DSL devices.

I want to wrap prio inside of tbf.  Here's why:  I have a server on a DSL
line, which has both hobby and business websites.  I want to make it so
that, if the bandwidth starts to get saturated, the hobby sites will slow
down, while the business sites will not be affected.  In other words, I
want to limit the total bandwidth to 700kbit (the max upload is 768kbit on
the modem) with tbf, but have a priority queue so that the business site
can take all available bandwidth if it's being used.  The two sets of
sites are on different IP's, so I can either filter by IP or set the TOS
flags with iptables.

I'm using kernel 2.4.18, so htb doesn't work (although it looks like it
might be good) and I also can't seem to get cbq to work (it accepts the
commands, but nothing changes, the bandwidth isn't being limited).  I'm
running tests on a spare server so I can try things without messing up the
production server.

Here's what I was trying with cbq:

tc qdisc add dev eth0 root handle 1:0 cbq bandwidth 100Mbit avpkt 64 cell
8

tc class add dev eth0 parent 1:0 classid 1:1 cbq bandwidth 100Mbit rate
5kbit weight .5kbit prio 8 allot 1514 cell 8 maxburst 20 avpkt 1000
bounded

I'd rather not compile a custom kernel because this is a production
server, and I'm using the latest one available for Debian (with security
patches) 2.4.18-686.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.  Keep in mind I'm new at this (never
heard of tc before yesterday).

Thanks.

			--- Moose

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