On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Ravi Kumar Tenneti <[email protected]> wrote: > We also found the following: > > 1. Mastershaper > 2. WebHTB (www.webhtb.ro) > > We are looking for suggestions > > 1. Which one is better among these > 2. It should be possible to configure this with already existing setup > (slightly large setup of 500+ users). > 3. Open for other solutions also.
Wondershaper is another tool. QoS is a subject that requires some understanding and reading up on how qdiscs perform and what their configurations are meant to do under different scenarios. While allocating bandwidth under a constrained scenario with all nodes firing is reasonably simple to understand, it is allocation of spare bandwidth beyond the minimum based on priority and maximum caps that you would need to pay attention. HTB as a qdisc performs well and seems to be fairly stable now. If you are looking at equitable distribution of bandwidth for your users without much diffferentiation, round robin queuing qdiscs will be useful. Most user friendly tools offer an dumbed down version of configuration of these qdiscs with a single level hierarchy scheme though they are far more powerful and allow for complex configurations. My advice would be to draw a hierarchy of desired usage of the bandwidth with priorities when there is contention for bandwidth and there is spare to be distributed. This could lead to appropriate subnet designs making it easy for you to design rules. Additions to the network can be made in the appropriate subnet and the QoS rules would not need to be changed. -- Mohan Sundaram _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
