Qos/TrafficShaping(on Shorewall) Howto available for Web-viewing

[Ow Mun Heng]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Homer
> On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 21:03, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Please have a view and please feedback accordingly. I think 
> It needs a little more work, esp in that QoS only can shape outgoing 
> traffic and not incoming.
> > 
> 
> 	That's the reason I didn't use Wondershaper.. I've got 
> 4 interfaces in
> my firewall and needed to throttle them all differently.. To throttle
> both directions, you have to apply tc rules to both 
> interfaces.. IE: you
> want 192.168.1.1 to have 256k with QOS both ways, you have to mark the
> packets as they come in, and then let tc use the marks to set 
> the packet
> to a rule.. Then you do it for the other interface.. So you end up
> marking the packets coming in both interfaces, and in my case, I mark
> according to origination and destination.. You've just set it for 256k
> both ways.. And yes, I use Shorewall as well.. Works like a 
> champ ;) As
> for you're HowTo, it looked pretty good, just wanted to let 
> you know how
> to handle both directions... For your next HowTo ;)

Actually, I updated the docs yesterday. I did mention that we can perform 
QoS on incoming connection but that would really mean, either dropping 
packets as they come in or severely limitting your downstream bandwidth.

I don't really think you can somehow Shape what your ISP sends you 
unless you have access to the ISP's routers etc.

If I am mistake, please educate me.