Throttling inbound traffic is often not much practical use since that commonly involves just dropping packets, packets that *could* have been handled. Special cases like guest WiFi access points, dropping packets is probably fine, which can be commonly done in the external AP itself.
As far as AstLinux where the shaping is done on the external interface, inbound shaping normally does not make sense. The SHAPER_P2P_HOSTS does "shape" traffic both inbound and outbound, but in a more subtile way based on priority. Lonnie On Jan 22, 2016, at 3:19 PM, David Kerr <da...@kerr.net> wrote: > Lonnie, > I think Michael is asking about limiting inbound traffic, not outbound. > The SHAPER_P2P_HOSTS setting I think only applies to outbound traffic... > because as you state we implemented it for the case where you have a NAS > server on local network uploading to a cloud-based backup and we wanted that > to have lowest priority. > > David > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com> > wrote: > Hi Michael, > > I think what you are asking is: "I want to shape all traffic on the external > interface such that all forwarded traffic has lower priority than any > internal traffic." > > In general, you are better off shaping the traffic "type" rather than traffic > "source/destination", which is how our Traffic Shaper plugin works by default. > > But, there is a user configurable option SHAPER_P2P_HOSTS (disabled by > default) in the configuration: > Network tab -> Firewall Plugins: [ traffic-shaper ] > > If you define... > -- > SHAPER_P2P_HOSTS="192.168.101.0/24" > -- > then all traffic to and from that subnet will have the lowest priority, > regardless of the traffic "type". > > Multiple subnets (or hosts) can be defined by space separating entries. > > Normally the SHAPER_P2P_HOSTS is used for a network backup server to the > cloud or such and a single Ip address, but defining a full network(s) also > works. > > I'm glad you asked this, this could be generally useful. > > Lonnie > > BTW, Michael Keuter and I recently noticed that traffic shaping on "server" > NIC's (ex. Intel "igb" driver) was not working as well as expected, long > story short, seems NIC packet "offloading" can interfere with traffic > shaping. As such, we now automatically disable TSO, GSO and GRO on the > shaped interface when shaping is enabled. This change is in the SVN and will > appear with AstLinux 1.2.5 . > > > > On Jan 22, 2016, at 12:17 AM, Michael Knill > <michael.kn...@ipcsolutions.com.au> wrote: > > > Yes more Traffic Shaping questions sorry. > > > > Is there any way that I can shape certain traffic types only for Downstream? > > > > Basically I want to be able to shape all other traffic incoming EXCEPT with > > a destination of the Asterisk server EXT interface. > > Is this possible? > > > > Regards > > Michael Knill > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance > APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month > Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now > Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=267308311&iu=/4140 > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to > pay...@krisk.org. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance > APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month > Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now > Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=267308311&iu=/4140_______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to > pay...@krisk.org. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=267308311&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org.
