From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stef Coene Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 18:35:20 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] Default Class 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 Tuesday 18 November 2003 00:23, Chijioke Kalu wrote: > Hi all, > > In my script, i assigned specific ip's to set classes, and assume by > default any other ip not matching my list of ips falls into the default > class. Consequently ave had occasions whenever systems that have ip's which > am sure fall into the default class, are in use, traffic tends to get > congested on "normal" classes... I suppose you use htb .... > NB. my default class has the lowest priority > > 1. Is this meant to be so, if not how can i correct it? It's not meant to be like that. > 2. Is it possible to know the sort of traffic passing thru the default > class? If possible improve the rate of other classes by matching important > traffic back to a higher priority class. No. Default class is used after all other filters are checked. > 3. Can I also match by mac-addresses? Yes : iptables + fw filter. Stef -- stef.coene@docum.org "Using Linux as bandwidth manager" http://www.docum.org/ #lartc @ irc.openprojects.net _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/