From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Ben Efros" Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:46:16 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] tc filter scalability 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 I no longer use the filters, instead I use the netfilter module CLASSIFY to mark packets for certain queues.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Hanlon - Central Coast Internet" To: Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 8:06 PM Subject: [LARTC] tc filter scalability > Has anyone tested the scalability of using tc filters? I have a box > which I require to traffic shape each individual client by IP Address using > u32 identifiers. My concern though, is that each client requires 2 filters > (data from and to the box) and there are a few hundred clients minimum. > Which means each packet may have to pass through a few hundred or possibly > thousand filters to determine its path. Is this going to give significant > latency issues? Or excessive server load? > > Is there a simpler way to restrict each client to a given rate (there > are three separate rates that different clients are assigned)? > > Kind regards, > > John Hanlon. > Central Coast Internet. > > _______________________________________________ > LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl > http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/ > _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/