Hi there I have been trying to get this (traffic shaping) working for a while, what packages are you using to achieve the CBQ? What debian release are you using and what kernel version are you using?
TIA. Regards David Anso ----- Original Message ----- From: "José Carlos Ramírez Pérez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-isp@lists.debian.org> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 12:08 AM Subject: Traffic shaping & proxy problem > Hello all. > > I've setup a traffic shaper (or should I say a bandwidth control policy) > in my Debian router using CBQ, with the unvaluable help of cbq.init from > Pavel Golubev (I've slightly modified it to be able to create > non-bounded classes and to specify prioritized filter rules). I've > created several classes to divide the overall available bandwidth (only > 64K) between logical sub-classes in the office (7 Kbps each). > > Well, it seems to be working well. Theoretically, the non-used bandwidth > in the other classes is being "spread" between the classes for which > there is traffic. But, I've no clue of what time should it take to > realize there is unused bandwidth and will borrow it for necessitated > classes. This time will be longer if there were more classes? I've been > requested to set up a class for each machine, but something tells me > this will not be any good at all. > > On the other hand, I have a Squid proxy running on the same machine and > can't control with CBQ the traffic it generates. This is because the > communication is between user-proxy, and between proxy-internet, so if I > choose to limit traffic from proxy to user, internal traffic gets > veeeery slow (retrieving pages from cache, and so on) and I'm not sure > this will be any good because the proxy will try to fill its cache at > maximum speed, thus getting all available bandwidth from the 64K Frame > Relay. Can you advice me about any way to solve this problem, please? > > Thanks in advance. > -- > José Carlos Ramírez Pérez > Área de Internet y Telecomunicaciones > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ___________________________________________________ > ISOTROL S.A. > Avda. de la innovación nº 1, 3ª plta, 41020 Sevilla > (Spain) > Tel.: +34 955 036 800 - Fax: +34 955 036 849 > web: http://www.isotrol.com/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
