From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stef Coene Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 17:13:45 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] shaping (policing) on a bridge 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 On Friday 02 May 2003 11:54, Girts Folkmanis wrote: > Hello! > > > Policing incoming traffic can be done with the infress qdisc and u32 + > > policers. A policer is some sort of tbf in the filter. This is limited > > in usage. You can only limit some traffic. > > > > If you want to shape incoming bandwidth with htb or cbq, you need the > > ingress qdisc, or shape the outgoing traffic on the other nic. This can > > be more complex, you can share bandwidth between users in a controlled > > way. > > Thanks for the answer, but can you point me to what documentation to > read to do the shaping on _bridge level_? Lots of information about > shaping on IP level are around, but I have found none on the lower > level shaping. Shaping on a bridge is the same as shaping on a router. So there is no special configuration needed to shape on a bridge. The u32 can be used on a router and on a bridge to match the packets. Stef -- stef.coene@docum.org "Using Linux as bandwidth manager" http://www.docum.org/ #lartc @ irc.oftc.net _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/