Re: [LARTC] service-based and ip-based shaping

[Andy Furniss <andy.furniss@dsl.pipex.com>]

Mihai Vlad wrote:
> Thanks,
> 
> The only issue here is that for each service I need to create 200 child
> classes if I have 200 clients...
> 
> 
> Let me explain the problem better
> 
> I have the following connection from my ISP: (1024/1024) (rate/ceil)
> 
> 1) First, I want to divide the 1024 into smaller pieces based on priority:
> 	256/256 - P2P (I want to limit the P2P traffic as much as possible)
> 	256/1024 - HTTP
> 	256/1024 - FTP
> 	256/1024 - SSH, Games, etc
> (I do not say that this is the best approach but it does not matter - it is
> just an example)
> 
> 2) Second task: Suppose I have previously shaped the traffic the way I want,
> I need 200 classes for 200 clients in which to tell the rate and ceil for
> each of them
> 	16/512 - Client 1
> 	16/256 - Client 2, etc 
> 
> If I would have 200 clients and 10 types of services and childs to service
> classes, this means 2000 client classes...
> 
> I was thinking of a funny setup:
> 
> Route the traffic to 2 IMQ's
> 	-> First: traffic passes imq0 - and is shaped based on services
> 	-> Second: traffic from imq0 is routed to imq1 - where it is shaped
> based on IP of the client.
> 
> What do you think about this? 

I think you will need to use imq but I would just use 1 and do the 
second level shaping on the real interface(s).

Andy.
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