From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Furniss Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 00:26:44 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] dynamic bandwidth allocation Message-Id: <41EB0644.1060601@dsl.pipex.com> List-Id: References: <380-2200513121218967@cit.ie> In-Reply-To: <380-2200513121218967@cit.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org Ashling O'Driscoll wrote: > Hi, > > Hope someone can help me. I am a student who hass been given a > project to develop a dynamic bandwidth service. > > I currently have a linux router which at the moment gives users > static bandwidth and assigns each of them to a bucket. I have not > gotten information yet as to whether each bucket is serviced in a > round robin fashion or whether certain buckets get preferential > treatment (i.e. bucket 1 service 60% as opposed to bucket 2 40%). > > I need to implement dynamic bandwidth/traffic shaping based on > certain types of traffic/applications e.g.voice or based on > particluar users. So basically if voice traffic is being delayed and > not getting through,the bandwidth should be dynamically adjusted to > accommodate this and then readjusted once the problem is resolved. > > I have researched the iproute 2 package,tc, packet priorities, tos > bytes, queues etc the last few days but I am actually confused at > this stage by all the information. I have also come across a > scripting tool called "pacemaker" from st josephs university in > america which seems "close" to what I want but not quite it. > > If anyone could offer me advice on how I should approach this, > whether it's "do-able" and an estimation of what kind of task Im > undertaking i.e. how difficult and how much time this might take, I > would be VERY grateful. As I have not worked in industry before and > am not very familiar with linux, I dont know how possible/difficult > this project is or even how to approach it. > Have a look at HTB or HFSC, HFSC is quite new so you won't find as many examples. http://www.docum.org http://luxik.cdi.cz/~devik/qos/htb/manual/userg.htm Andy. _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/