Re: QoS with netfilter

[Daniel Lopes <lopsch@lopsch.com>]

Cedric Blancher schrieb:
> Le samedi 10 décembre 2005 à 10:14 -0800, Erik a écrit :
> 
>>dscp is not important. You have a suggestion how to set TOS?
>>I would ideally like to controll the whole byte. Either TOS or DSCP and ECN.
>>How can I change all these bits (i.e. the whole byte) with the
>>netfilter mangle table or other?
> 
> 
> I think you're taking the problem the wrong way. Altering DSCP/TOS won't
> change the way packets are treated, because by default, there's no QoS
> policy. So you'll have to set a QoS policy yourself that fits your
> needs.
> 
> To do this, you have to read LARTC as adivsed before. Then, your QoS
> policy can be built upon TOS/DSCP value, but you can use stuff like u32
> classifier or MARK.
> 
> Have you tried stuff like cbq-init or htb-init (see Google) ?
> 
> 

Perhaps I'm wrong but the handling will be done bei IP as soon as the 
bits are set. That's the way the internet routers should work. With tc 
you can do other schemes of handling. Correct me please if I'm wrong.