[LARTC] Re: HTB and filters on many levels - Workaround found

[Daniel Brahneborg <basic@chello.se>]

I found a little workaround, but I'm not really happy with it.

On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 12:03:21AM +0200, Daniel Brahneborg wrote:
> My setup is like this:
> 
>   ISP - [ eth0  'firewall machine'  eth1 ] - LAN
> 
> I'd like to split the traffic evenly between the firewall and the LAN,
> and then prioritize traffic within those classes, similarly to the
> example in the HTB User Guide.  I want something like this:
> 
>  qdisc root 1: htb default 2
> 	1:9 htb rate 240
> 		1:1 htb rate 120 ceil 240
> 			1:11 htb rate 20 ceil 80 prio 1
> 				filter: ssh, ack, etc
> 				11: pfifo
> 			1:12 htb rate 60 ceil 200 prio 2
> 				no filter
> 				12: pfifo
> 			1:13 htb rate 20 ceil 80 prio 3
> 				filter: direct connect
> 				13: pfifo
> 		1:2 htb rate 120 ceil 240
> 			1:21 htb rate 20 ceil 80 prio 1
> 				21: pfifo
> 			1:22 htb rate 60 ceil 200 prio 2
> 				22: pfifo
> 			1:23 htb rate 20 ceil 80 prio 3
> 				23: pfifo
> 
> I then use iptables -j MARK to set a '1' if the traffic comes from
> eth1.  If not, it should end up in 1:2, and 1:1 and 1:2 should be able
> to borrow from each other.

What I do now is to use ipfilter to set marks on the packets for all six
classes, and then set all filters on 1:0.  A bit more work for iptables,
but it seems to work.  Is it a bug that a fiter can't be added to a class?

/Basic

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