Brian J. Murrell wrote:
For most home, or other small use situations, isn't it easier to just specify priorities of traffic, i.e.Type Priority VOIP 1 Interactive (i.e. ssh) 2 All other 3
Sure. But Shorewall was never targeted at that market. It's predecessor Seawall was targeted at SOHO users and I originally developed Shorewall to provide a product that took over where Seawall left off.
The simple commodity firewall routers typically use a scheme like you advocate. But then I've never understood why a home user would choose Shorewall over one of those little devices anyway. If I didn't develop and maintain Shorewall, I wouldn't run it here at home (and my office would be a lot less crowded).
I used to do this all with the FIFO classifiers rather than using the more complicated HTB (and friends) classifiers.
Then I urge you to develop such a traffic shaper as an alternative to the one built into Shorewall. If it turns out to be wildly popular, we can integrate it into Shorewall just like we did with Arne Bernin's 'tc4shorewall' which is the current Shorewall builtin TC.
So now on to the question(s): Could the same be achieved in tcclasses (to steal the wondershaper example from the traffic_shaping.htm page) with: #INTERFACE MARK RATE CEIL PRIORITY OPTIONS ppp0 1 full full 1 tcp-ack,tos-minimize-delay ppp0 2 full full 2 default ppp0 3 full full 2
Not really. HTB works badly when the sum of the RATEs exceeds the OUT-BANDWIDTH. Something more like this should work though: #INTERFACE MARK RATE CEIL PRIORITY OPTIONS ppp0 1 full*98/100 full 1 tcp-ack,tos-minimize-delay ppp0 2 full/100 full 2 default ppp0 3 full/100 full 2 -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.net Washington USA \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key \ https://lists.shorewall.net/teastep.pgp.key
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