From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stef Coene Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 09:46:35 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] shaping incoming with ingress 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 Thursday 31 July 2003 05:55, Rio Martin. wrote: > On Thursday 31 July 2003 10:00, Martin A. Brown wrote: > > Well....(you'll love this) the reason everyone is saying "you can't shape > > incoming traffic" is because you can't shape incoming traffic (without > > IMQ). > > Well, i shape incoming traffic without IMQ (: > I made my bandwidth.manager is on top of every router in my organization, > so every traffic coming or leaving my organization must be processed by my > bandwidth.manager first.. If I understand correctly, you have 1 router with 2 nics. So you shape incoming traffic on nic1 by shaping outgoing traffic on nic2. This is fine for your setup, but if you 3 nic's and you are running some services on the router, you will have a problem. > > Well, in short, what we're really saying is that you can't control what > > you receive (without IMQ). As the recipient of frames/packets, you have > > no control over how fast they arrive in your device's input queue. > > In my bandwidth.manager eth0 would be upgoing packet that needs to be > manage, while eth1 would be the incoming packet to my LAN network. -- 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/