[LARTC] Best setup for redundant routers.

2007-12-06 Thread Shane McKinley
I am setting up 2 Vyatta routers that will serve as redundant failover core routers out to the backbone of our ISP. They will be serving for routing between other branches and the ISP and bandwidth management. I am trying to differentiate between the plethora of information about having

[LARTC] GRE tunnel stops traffic when idle

2007-12-06 Thread Marlon Dutra
Hello, I've set up a GRE tunnel between two Linux boxes and it's working well, with or without IPSEC (under GRE). The problem is that when I have no traffic for some minutes, side A cannot communicate to side B any more, unless side B tries to communidate to side A. The same thing happens in the

[LARTC] prio qdisc not wokring

2007-12-06 Thread Archana Rajagopal
Hi, I am working on linux 2.6.16.I tried to prioritize traffic using prio module but its not working well.It always maps to same class irrespective of ToS.Is it possible to fix it using filters?Anybody fixed this problem? -- Regards Archana Rajagopal

[LARTC] How does one increase the output buffer size?

2007-12-06 Thread gypsy
In 2.4 kernels, there was a [bp]fifo that could be implemented with 'tc add', but in 2.6 kernels, I find no way to create either of these fifos. I am able to increase txqueuelen. What I desire is a larger number of backlogged packetes before drops occur. How can the output buffer size be

[LARTC] Bandwith vsatl - not static

2007-12-06 Thread Alex Segura N.
I have a existencial problem. There are some provider that offer the service of bandwith asimetric as download/upload link as for example 512/256. but most of them offer not exclusive this amount of transmission or reception capacity. They usually offer the service with more users as a ratio

RE: [LARTC] prio qdisc not wokring

2007-12-06 Thread Salim S I
I do not know about TOS, but it can be mapped well with filters. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Archana Rajagopal Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 2:56 AM To: lartc@mailman.ds9a.nl Subject: [LARTC] prio qdisc not wokring Hi, I am

Re: [LARTC] prio qdisc not wokring

2007-12-06 Thread Archana Rajagopal
Thank you for the reply! Is prio per flow based or per connection based.I mean if I have two clients(two different systems)each sending different flows of traffic, it seems to classify flows from one system but it does not aggregate the flows of same priority of all clients.Is this observation

[LARTC] how RED should work ?

2007-12-06 Thread Salatiel Filho
Hi , i am trying to understand how RED queue discipline works but i am having a few troubles. The parameters are MIN , MAX , LIMIT , BURST I put LIMIT = 64Kb, so if i am not wrong it should PDROP anything over this value , right ? i put MIN = 8Kb , so no drops at all below this value, right ? i

Re: [LARTC] Best setup for redundant routers.

2007-12-06 Thread Grant Taylor
On 12/6/2007 11:40 AM, Shane McKinley wrote: Wouldn't the redundant VRRP cause an IP address conflict? No. Let me try to explain using pseudo IP addresses. For the sake of discussion we will use the RFC test network of 192.0.2.0/24. (All IPs below will be just the last octet in said

Re: [LARTC] Best setup for redundant routers.

2007-12-06 Thread Mohan Sundaram
Grant Taylor wrote: This looks to be a general routing related question rather than a Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control (a.k.a. LARTC) question and thus may be better answered elsewhere. *nod* On 12/06/07 10:43, Shane McKinley wrote: I am setting up 2 Vyatta routers that will serve

RE: [LARTC] prio qdisc not wokring

2007-12-06 Thread Salim S I
If you use filters, you can use src IP or TOS to send traffic from different clients to different bands. There is no connection tracking in qdisc, the priority mapping is done according to the TC_PRIO. I think this will help http://www.opalsoft.net/qos/DS-23.htm -Original Message- From:

Re: [LARTC] HTB performance improvement

2007-12-06 Thread gypsy
gypsy wrote: tc qdisc add dev eth0.2 root handle 1: htb tc class add dev eth0.2 parent 1: classid 1:1 htb rate 1 ceil 1 burst 100 quantum 1600 tc class add dev eth0.2 parent 1:1 classid 1:10 htb prio 1 rate 7000 ceil 7000 burst 100 quantum 1600 tc