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PRIO qdisc example from LARTC not working in OpenWrt, OK in debian

I need to do QoS on my network, so I've been reading the LARTC to figure out how. I am running attitude (r36088) on a TP-Link WR1043-ND. Reflashed and installed qos-scripts and kmod-sched only, so ...
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PRIO qdisc example not working

I have a TP-Link WR1043-ND with OpenWrt 12.09 (r36088, Linux 3.3.8). There is a bridge called br-lan joining eth0.1 (tagged VLAN for the 4 LAN ports) and wlan0 (Wi-Fi). There is also the WAN port at ...
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split traffic on two eth ports

I have a linux Proxmox server with two ethernet ports. The problem is that I have two uplinks that I would like to use with different bandwidth limitations. The first uplink maxes out at 100mbs and ...
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Per-user dynamic traffic shaping

At work we have a dedicated Internet link for everyday use (servers use a different link) with limited upload bandwidth (currently 3Mbps). Since there are ~80 users, sometimes this upstream link ...
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Linux tc Traffic Shaping for IPv6

I have traffic shaping with tc and htb in place and everything works fine for IPv4. Now I want to limit the bandwidth for incoming IPv6 ssh/sftp traffic to some reasonable amount, so it doesn't ...
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Limiting bandwidth on internal interface on Linux gateway

I am responsible for a Linux-based (it runs Debian) branch office router that takes a single high-speed Internet connection (eth2) and turns it into about 20 internal networks, each with a seperate ...
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Limiting interface bandwidth with tc under Linux

I have a linux router which has a 10GBe interface on the outside and bonded Gigabit ethernet interfaces on the inside. We have currently budget for 2GBit/s. If we exceed that rate by more than 5% ...
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Traffic shaping L2TP/IPsec VPN (via accounts not connection)

I need to be able to control the amount of bandwidth a specific user account can use on a VPN connection. One account I want to be able to use the VPN with no restrictions and another account I want ...
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Linux QoS (Skype / BitTorent / SIP / HTTP priority)

We are configuring a linux box that will act as internet gateway for an office of 30-50 computers. We are using iptables/HTB for traffic shaping. Is there a way to match traffic on L7 level? It's ...
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tc don't see marked packets

Server has 2 interfaces: eth1 with address 13.0.0.254/24 eth0 with address 172.20.203.4/24. It's routing traffic between this two networks. Task is to limit bandwidth between this two networks to ...
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Equalizing bandwidth according to use

I need a way to prioritize packets without setting bandwidth limits. For example, I have a client using the whole bandwidth. As soon as other clients need bandwidth, reduce the bandwidth of the former ...
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Linux tc htb + prio = very slow link

I'm trying to shape the traffic going out of my DSL link (verified 1 mbit upload) using Linux (3.2) tc, HTB, and PRIO. My Linux box is connected via a Gigabit Ethernet link to the ADSL modem. I want ...
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Using tc to delay packets to only a single IP address

I am new to using tc and netem. I want to delay packets being sent to a specific IP address. However, the commands below cause all packets on the system to be delayed, instead of just to the IP ...
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Can I use iptables to limit port's outgoing bandwidth?

I want to limit my linux server port 8080 at speed 500KB/s, can I do this with iptables?
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Traffic shaping with tc doesn't work for high delay and bandwidth

I'm using tc with kernel 2.6.38.8 for traffic shaping. Limit bandwidth works, adding delay works, but when shaping both bandwidth with delay, the achieved bandwidth is always much lower than the limit ...
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deleting filters in tc

I have added a filter in tc as follows: tc filter add dev eth0 parent 1: protocol ip handle 6 fw flowid 1:6 This should be sending packets marked by iptables with '--set-mark 6' to class 1:6. The ...
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MasterShaper alternative

I'm looking for an alternative to MasterShaper, something possibly web-based which could allow me to manage QoS easily. Actually MasterShaper still looks supported, but would like to understand if ...
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Input traffic shaping

I know that I can shape output traffic with tc or a similar tool. However, I want to shape the input traffic now—actually, I want to prioritize downloading of files of certain type through a slow ...
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TC hashing filters - single rule deletion

For traffic shaping I'm currently using a setup that looks exactly like the setup from LARTC, on this page: http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.adv-filter.hashing.html I have a simple problem with that - ...
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traffic shaping, prioritizing packets without using a bitrate ceil/max

I've written a script that shapes traffic into 3 pipes. The first pipe needs to be high priority and always be send first. This works perfectly now on 1 condition. I enter a correct ceil/max bitrate. ...
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Linux TC class/filter numbering

I'm currently working on a traffic shaping solution for ISP-level companies, and came to an interesting (kindof philosophical) problem. Looking about the number of endpoints the system should handle ...
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tc traffic limiting/shaping/throttling/policing in linux ipv6 issues

I managed to discover an interesting issue: I'm not getting proper limiting with ipv4 traffic, but instead it works perfectly with ipv6. This doesn't make much sense to me since I read this article: ...
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Rate-limiting incoming traffic

I've never quite understood whether or not it's possible to rate-limit incoming traffic. I realize that there is no direct method whereby to control the remote server's rate of sending packets (unless ...
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QoS on DD-WRT Questions

I have a question about quality of service (QoS) on linux (DDWRT specifically). Here's my setup: Recent version of DD-WRT 120 kbytes/s up and 2mbytes/down Traffic limited to about 80% of stated ...
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Why is my linux traffic shaping script having limited results?

I am trying to introduce some traffic rules to my Linux passthrough server that will give a better QoS for the following: 1) Low port traffic out of the box (web traffic and mail, etc). 2) Low port ...
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Per-IP bandwidth monitoring and trafic shaping solution for 100Mb network

I have about 30 servers connecting into a Cisco 3500 series switch, with 100M upstream bandwidth. Periodically, one or more of my servers will do a large file transfer which will completely saturate ...
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Simulating a slow connection with tc

I have a linux box (Centos 5.5) on which I want to limit the network traffic. I have an application that we distribute to clients and I want to test it on the minimum recommended bandwidth of ...
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How can I do traffic shaping in Linux by xen guests?

I want to be able to set up two xen guests like this: xen-create-image --hostname=xen1.example.com --size=10Gb --swap=512Mb --ip=192.168.0.101 --force --memory=256Mb --arch=i386 --debootstrap and ...
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Is there some advanced traffic shaping frontend for linux?

If you ever worked with Mikrotik routers, you probably got used to 'simple queuing', a very simply manageable list of IP->speed rules. I guess other router OSes have something similar, for those who ...
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How can I do traffic shaping in Linux by IP?

We have a transparent proxy setup. I tried looking for traffic shaping in Linux, and all I could find online was to limit traffic by interface (eth0/eth1...). I need to limit the bandwidth (never ...
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How to prioritize openvpn traffic?

I have an openvpn server, with one network interface. VPN traffic is extremely slow. I tried to do traffic control with this configuration (currently): qdisc del dev eth0 root qdisc add dev eth0 root ...
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higher traffic priority for FPS game in Linux

Goal: when running a FPS game in Linux, automate the setup of higher priority for its network traffic I know such tasks are usually accomplished with a combination of iptables (to mark IP packets ...
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limit network bandwith for an ip

for a traffic management app i should limit bandwidth for clients ip addresses that for each ip there are different limit how can use tc-tbf for specific ip address or is any other solution?
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Slow down individual connections passing through a Linux router?

We have a Linux server acting as a router/firewall for our office. Occasionally someone will upload a large file that takes up all our bandwidth. I don't want to implement any complex rules or traffic ...
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bridge traffic limiting via tc

I have a Linux machine running as a bridge simulating various network conditions. I use tc for this. Introducing delays or packet loss is quite simple but I got into trouble trying to configure ...
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Shaping outbound Traffic to Control Download Speeds with Linux

I have a situation where a server makes lots of requests from big webservers all at the same time. Currently, I have not control over the amount of requests or the rate of the requests from the ...
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Does anyone really understand how HFSC scheduling in Linux/BSD works?

I read the original SIGCOMM '97 PostScript paper about HFSC, it is very technically, but I understand the basic concept. Instead of giving a linear service curve (as with pretty much every other ...
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Sharing Bandwidth and Prioritizing Realtime Traffic via HTB, Which Scenario Works Better?

I would like to add some kind of traffic management to our Internet line. After reading a lot of documentation, I think HFSC is too complicated for me (I don't understand all the curves stuff, I'm ...
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Minimal rate and default class problem for HTB

I have some doubts about a HTB structure I'm using. My aim is to limit the download and upload speed of users in a local network. Each user of the network has a personal list of domains with a down ...
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What is the best solution for traffic control in a large system (ca. 2000 users)?

following situation: We're a group of students administering the internet connection for the local resident halls, with a total of about 2000 end users. We have a traffic point system, every MB down- ...
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Linux traffic shaping using TC

My internet connection goes like this: Internet <-128kbps link-> Cisco Router (Public IP) <-LAN-> Linux router/server (Public IP) <-LAN-> Regular PCs (Public IPs) The Cisco router: the ...
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Linux TC / Policy Routing tools

In addition to a really good firewall Linux has a builtin advanced routing and traffic shaping (lartc). There are many applications (firehol, firestarter, etc) to make the creation of iptables ...