Re: Why are my cburst settings ignored?

[Andy Furniss <adf.lists@gmail.com>]

Andrew Beverley wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-07-14 at 19:33 +0200, maillinglistredcap@gmx.de wrote:
>> Thanks Andrew and Andy,
>
> You're welcome.
>
>> Just out of curiosity, how is traffic handled that isn't assigned to any class
>> in the qdisc tree when you do not specify a default class? My assumptions was
>> that such pakets are simply be dropped, which is why I also shaped lan traffic.
>
> AFAIK it just bypasses the whole of the qdisc and therefore goes through
> the networking system completely unaffected. In the case of local LAN
> traffic that you don't want to shape (which is not affected by any
> associated bandwidth constraints) you can therefore keep it out of the
> qdisc completely (although make sure you're not accidentally capturing
> it with a "default" parameter).

Yea, though it's still counted by HTB.

I should really specify "just for HTB" whenever I go on about not using 
default and arp.

HFSC is the opposite and does drop unclassified - so you really need a 
default, or to be careful to make sure arp is classified.