Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Fwd: Traffic Shaping on a Transparent Bridge not working!

[Kari M. <kar...@tr...>]

drew einhorn wrote:
> Hmm.  Has there been any consideration to moving DL to a 2.6 kernel?
> As time goes by it's just going to get harder and harder to backport and
> maintain applications to run on a 2.4 kernel.

I leave this to Heiko and others.

> I believe tcng is a higher level language that generates shell scripts
> calling the tc commands, etc.
> 
> But I need to take a closer look at it.

Well, it is just that.  A kind of wrapper.  BandwidthArbitrator is quite 
the same + Qos, GUI, reporting, etc.  The command 'tc' the actual, real 
thing.  That does the job.

> I'll let you know if I decide to take a close look at Bandwidth Aggregator.
> 
> Want to look for an easier solution to the problem first.

Maybe the easiest start is to only limit outgoing traffic.  That works.
Add VLANs and incoming traffic shaping after that.

> Thanks,
> 
> Drew