From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stef Coene Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 13:17:24 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] pfifo scheduler 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 Saturday 21 June 2003 14:56, Nikolay Datchev wrote: > Hello ppl, > > I'm playing with the pfifo scheduler, its simple, and i cannot understand > what's wrong. So, i have test machine, with one interface eth0, and i want > to send no more than 3 packets/sec out of that interface, so i do: > > tc qdisc add dev eth0 root pfifo limit 3 > > And i get pfifo scheduler on eth0 with limit of 3, but it sends as many > packets per second as it wants, without delay or drop. How can i get it > throttle if sended more than N packets/sec ? You can't do this with the pfifo qdisc. You only create a pfifo qdisc that can hold 3 packets. But that does not mean that it will send 3 packets / seconds. Take a look at the htb, cbq or tbf qdisc for limiting bandwidth. 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/