From: Andy Furniss <andy.furniss@dsl.pipex.com>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] Using TBF to throttle a PC to 5kbps
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:49:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <437B632C.8050803@dsl.pipex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200511141753.48133.lartc-337@ccp.com.au>
Lee Sanders wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> This is a simple question but I don't understand why the below tbf is not
> working as expected by throttling traffic to 5kbps
>
> If I throttle a PC's traffic using the below when traffic exceeds 5kbps
> packets start getting dropped (as they should) but all traffic gets dropped.
> not just the bit over 5kbps.
>
> TC="tc add dev ppp0"
> $TC parent 8001:2 handle 2: tbf rate 5kbps latency 50ms burst 1540
>
> I can see the "dropped" counter increasing, the overlimits counter stays the
> same and there is a "backlog" counter with 21p
That's strange - this is a count of the packets queued, but why 21 - the
settings you use make for a very small buffer 5kbps and 50ms is < 1 bulk
packet.
do a tc -s -d qdisc ls dev ppp0 and you may see tbf has optimised it to
even less.
Try with 500ms latency.
Andy.
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2005-11-14 9:53 [LARTC] Using TBF to throttle a PC to 5kbps Lee Sanders
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