Jonathan Camenisch wrote:
I can't wait to see the replies on this. What you're describing might
be exactly what I need to do, but I haven't been sure I wanted to deal
with the extra complexity.
On 7/14/05, Karl O. Pinc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
It's been said on this list before that you can't
queue inbound traffic, say from a lower bandwidth
link to the net, effectively on a host that is multi-homed.
The solution has always been to do QOS on another
2-port box between the multi-homed host and the net.
It occurs to me that I should be able to create
a loopback device and use a pf filter rule
with "route-to" to deliver all inbound traffic to the
the loopback device. I could then
queue on the loopback device.
Is there any reason I should not pursue this?
Am I missing something here? Seems to me like
this would be completely transparent, except
that you'd lose all tags routed through the loopback.
But that should be easy to fix by tagging
the output of the loopback rather than the
output of the Internet NIC, as route-to return
traffic would not go through the loopback.
Any guidance would be appreciated.
Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
-- Robert A. Heinlein
So in that manner i wanted to ask if i have NAT how do i do shape on
inbound and outbound if the translation is done on the out interface
like ext_if is for the outgoing ( int_if for the packets coming from
ext_if per IP basis ) packets from the internal net ? aren't they with
the external ip before QoS is done ? And another question if they are
with the external IP before they are shaped can i do TAG to limit net on
per IP basis ???
