From: Stef Coene <stef.coene@docum.org>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] Bandwidth management under linux
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 14:07:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200501131507.41996.stef.coene@docum.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8105747b0501130502342acdca@mail.gmail.com>
On Thursday 13 January 2005 14:02, Johan Jordaan wrote:
> In my search to control bandwidth on my network I found 2 projects..
>
> 1. TC
> 2. BWM Tools - http://freshmeat.net/projects/bwmtools/
>
> This brings me to 2 questions...
>
> Firstly, can TC control bandwidth in both directions?
It can shape outgoing traffic. If you have 2 network cards, you can shape in
bothe directions. But it can also throtlle incoming traffic if you want
(this is not so powerfull as shaping outgoing traffic).
> I read that it
> can only do 1 direction, which one I cant remember.
Outgoing.
> Can you monitor
> the load on the queues you define?
Yes, with external scripting.
> Does TC support IPv6?
Yes (I think)
> Secondly, BWM Tools seems to queue traffic to userspace and use some
> kind of kernel module to allow it through or not. How efficient is
> bandwidth control using ip queing to userspace? BWM Tools doesn't seem
> to support IPv6 :(
I don't know how BWM works.
Stef
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2005-01-13 13:02 [LARTC] Bandwidth management under linux Johan Jordaan
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