Re: [LARTC] Weighted packet shaping?

[Andy Furniss <andy.furniss@dsl.pipex.com>]

Mark Williams (MWP) wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Im new to all this, and am still trying to get my head qround some of the
> concepts of how this all works.
> Ive read the howto's, man pages etc.
> 
> Ive setup packet shaping on my router/server box using HTB and SFQ, but its not
> working the way i would like.
> 
> Im after shaping that has "weights" for classes so that a lower priority class
> will slow down when a higher class wants to flow more data.
> As far as i can see, HTB wont do this...

As Ed says - I think you probably can do it with rate/ceil/prio - detail 
depends on you set up and exactly what you want to happen/

> 
> Ive looked at WRR which i have compiled into my 2.6.8.1 kernel 

There is a TC options related bug in 2.6.8.1 you'll probably need to 
update/patch. This fixed it for me.

http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.6/9-rc2/net/sched/sch_api.c

Andy.

and iproute2, but
> it seems this really only works with multiple sources (client PCs), rather than
> the iptables MARK system i want to use so i can organise local and client PC
> traffic.
> 
> Does anyone know how i can do what im after?
> 
> Thanks,
>  Mark Williams.
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