From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Lloyd Standish" Subject: Re: htb + prio trouble (additional info) Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 13:10:03 -0600 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: netfilter-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed delsp=yes" To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 12:44:46 -0600, Lloyd Standish wrote: > Hello All, > > While configuring a load-balancing router, I have run into trouble setting up traffic shaping (at least the load-balancing is working!) > > I am trying to: > (1) limit total upload speed to somewhat below the interface bandwidth > (2) do some traffic shaping, particularly avoid queuing of VOIP packets. > > To accomplish this I am trying to create a HTB qdisc on each outward-facing interface, each containing a PRIO qdisc with the default 3 classes. sfq qdiscs are created for each PRIO class. PS I should point out that in this case VOIP and DNS traffic should always have priority, even at the expense of some bandwidth and/or hurting other flows. I will look for better ways to filter for VOIP traffic.