From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Martin A. Brown" Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:52:58 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] bandwidth control question. Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org Yes, You can use tc on a bridge. See also this thread: http://mailman.ds9a.nl/pipermail/lartc/2003q1/007378.html If you are just going to perform traffic control, and you don't need to use iptables, you don't need the bridge+nf functionality. Add your filters to the "real" devices, not br0. -Martin : I'm looking for a way to limit bandwidth to/from clients using a : contended 2Mb link. What I'm looking for is to allow a client machine to : use the full 2Mb but only if there is no traffic to/from other clients. : I've been looking at htb.init and cbq.init, and believe that the BURST : used in htb.init will allow what I need. : : I'm looking to put in place something like: : ------------------ : | Router | : ------------------ : | : ------------------ : | Bridge | : ------------------ : | : ------------------ : | Switch | : ------------------ : | : Various servers : : Am I right in thinking that I'll be able to use tc within the bridge ? : : Regards, : Jon : : _______________________________________________ : LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl : http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/ : -- Martin A. Brown --- SecurePipe, Inc. --- mabrown@securepipe.com _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/