Re: [LARTC] "Fan-in/fan-out" tc filters?

[Stef Coene <stef.coene@docum.org>]

On Wednesday 13 November 2002 20:58, Christian G. Warden wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 07:25:52PM +0100, Stef Coene wrote:
> > If you want to improve latency for certain traffic, you can create 2 htb
> > classes.  One with a lower prio parameter to get low latency and an other
> > class with all other traffic.
> > To give each pc on the network the same opportunity to send something,
> > create 100 sub classes with parent=second class.  To get fairness / pc,
> > you can add a sfq to each class.  You can do the same for the low prio
> > class.  If you don't care about fairness / pc, you can add 1 esfq qdisc
> > instead of the 100 sub classes.
>
> can you add filters both the parent classes and sub classes so that you
> put packets into the sub classes by ip address and then into the parent
> classes by port, packet size, tos, etc.?
You can add filters to the root qdisc or a class.  When a filter place a 
packet in a class, the filters of that class are checked for a match.  So you 
can "stack" filters.

Stef

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