Re: [LARTC] Bridge with Traffic shaping

[Stef Coene <stef.coene@docum.org>]

On Saturday 27 July 2002 19:56, Roché Compaan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am fairly new to routing and traffic control but I with the
> help of the lartc howto I managed to setup a bridge with htb
> traffic control.  The traffic shapping does not seem to work
> as I expected and I would really appreciate if somebody
> can tell my why this is the case.
>
> My setup:
> I have a DSL router connecting a /28 network to the internet.
> I put a linux box with 2 ethernet cards between my router and
> the rest of the subnet.  I set up the linux box as an ethernet
> bridge where the 2 ethernet cards has no ip address and the
> bridge has an ip address.  I patched the kernel with the IMQ
> patch so that I can shape incoming traffic.  eth0 is connected
> to the router and eth1 is connect to the rest of the public
> subnet.  I have an iptables rule that routes all traffic on eth1
> to the imq device.
If you put all incoming traffic on eth1 in the imq device, why don't you use 
the outgoing traffic on eth0 do the same shaping?  All traffic entering the 
box on eth1 leaves the box on eth0.  That way you don't need the imq device.

Stef


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