From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sridhar Samudrala Subject: per connection TCP traffic shaping Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:21:50 -0800 Message-ID: <4D75769E.3060406@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netdev Return-path: Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.149]:54102 "EHLO e31.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754248Ab1CHAV6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Mar 2011 19:21:58 -0500 Received: from d03relay05.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay05.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.107]) by e31.co.us.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id p2806qUM028350 for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 17:06:52 -0700 Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (d03av04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.170]) by d03relay05.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id p280LtHY063634 for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 17:21:55 -0700 Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id p280JV3H024792 for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 17:19:31 -0700 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (sig-9-76-209-112.mts.ibm.com [9.76.209.112]) by d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVin) with ESMTP id p280JTF2024745 for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 17:19:31 -0700 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: We are looking into a scalable way to configure a linux router to shape traffic on outgoing connections(upto 10000) to (100Kb/s - 1Mb/s) over a 10Gb link. Can someone point to any scripts that can be used to implement per-connection traffic shaping using 'tc' and 'iptables'? Can this be done without having to create a separate tc class/filter for each connection? Thanks Sridhar