[LARTC] shaping domain names(www.xyz.com)

[Michael Renzmann]

Hi.

Stef Coene wrote:
>>You could achieve this by using different firewall marks for the
>>different traffic classes, and shape upon that marks. IIRC there is an
>>iptables-extension available that allows to match strings, so you could
>>try to match "Host: <domain>" in order to distinguish the different
>>domains. But I have no idea if this would work in real world, nor what
>>performance impact that may have.
> Only one problem.  Tc sees ip packets and ip packets contains ip addresses, 
> not hostnames.  So you can't do this.

But tc sees the fwmark value that iptables has attached to a packet, 
right? Hence the idea to accomplish the "destination host distinction" 
with iptables-rules, setting fwmark accordingly and let tc decide on the 
different fwmark values.

Bye, Mike