Different ways to shape traffic

ivanatora · 07-19-2004, 09:25 AM

The idea of that thread is to gather together different ways to shape traffic and their pluses and minuses.
One of them is via CBQ/HTB. Plus: flexibility. Minus: difficult configuring.
2. Iptables kernel patch (bytelimit): Easy configuring, but very CPU expensive.
3. Squid delay pools: Plus: ??? Minus: ???
Others?

newpenguin · 07-19-2004, 02:57 PM

3. squid delay pools
plus:very flexible minus:will work only for http (if u using transperant proxy)

4. freebsd dummynet
plus:very very easy minus:ipfw isnt very good

5.openbsd altq
plus:has more flexibility than others + very stable + pf is very nice minus: openbsd isnt easy

any other way ?

ivanatora · 07-19-2004, 03:09 PM

Btw, when someone tries to download files from web pages, it is done via http, right? Then Squid's features come very handly

newpenguin · 07-19-2004, 03:21 PM

yep i always control only port 80 traffic with squid.u can limit only the bandwidth for .exe files, mp3 files etc etc .. and still the normall browsing will be fine.

but if u r in a environment where u cant use any proxy or using squid only for http then u will need any other thing.