From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johan Jordaan Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:02:46 +0000 Subject: [LARTC] Bandwidth management under linux Message-Id: <8105747b0501130502342acdca@mail.gmail.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lartc@mailman.ds9a.nl In my search to control bandwidth on my network I found 2 projects.. 1. TC 2. BWM Tools - http://freshmeat.net/projects/bwmtools/ This brings me to 2 questions... Firstly, can TC control bandwidth in both directions? I read that it can only do 1 direction, which one I cant remember. Can you monitor the load on the queues you define? Does TC support IPv6? Secondly, BWM Tools seems to queue traffic to userspace and use some kind of kernel module to allow it through or not. How efficient is bandwidth control using ip queing to userspace? BWM Tools doesn't seem to support IPv6 :( If anyone else knows of a way I can shape traffic, please let me know. Regards Johan _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/ From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261614AbVAMNCv (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jan 2005 08:02:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261611AbVAMNCv (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jan 2005 08:02:51 -0500 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.200]:12906 "EHLO rproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261615AbVAMNCr (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jan 2005 08:02:47 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=TEjgEkLAJc/4daccd+81CBqI/zXzQw2b+VbmcYWBqK07M2qhd8HcDU03qIwv8vs7mrUS9J6ZVzlz9Jrp2+s48xFDlEcHcKw9JAsgak4P00dlhxpvx9z+X0H5CSxMCmrRs7sjESg1v7CoNtfERY+6dBUSUwZB8crnhCwVErz/CL8= Message-ID: <8105747b0501130502342acdca@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:02:46 +0000 From: Johan Jordaan Reply-To: Johan Jordaan To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lartc@mailman.ds9a.nl Subject: Bandwidth management under linux Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In my search to control bandwidth on my network I found 2 projects.. 1. TC 2. BWM Tools - http://freshmeat.net/projects/bwmtools/ This brings me to 2 questions... Firstly, can TC control bandwidth in both directions? I read that it can only do 1 direction, which one I cant remember. Can you monitor the load on the queues you define? Does TC support IPv6? Secondly, BWM Tools seems to queue traffic to userspace and use some kind of kernel module to allow it through or not. How efficient is bandwidth control using ip queing to userspace? BWM Tools doesn't seem to support IPv6 :( If anyone else knows of a way I can shape traffic, please let me know. Regards Johan