[LARTC] QOS Script difficulty on bridge

[Jason Boxman]

On Thursday 17 June 2004 03:29, Ed Wildgoose wrote:
<sni>
> Consider:
>
> Internet -> Router -> Eth1 -> br0 -> Eth0 -> local net
>
> Now by applying QOS to eth1 I control outgoing traffic from everywhere.
> By applying QOS to eth0 I control incoming to the localnet (great), but
> NOT to the local bridge machine
>
> Now I could fix this by using the IMQ device on eth1 and grabbing
> incoming traffic, but the top of the file at
> http://digriz.org.uk/jdg-qos-script/ implies that it is possible to do
> this without IMQ...
>
> The question is how?  I don't see how to do it....  What am I missing?

It's my understanding that you cannot attach much of anything except the 
police filter on the ingress hook.  As such, you need IMQ to attach egress 
qdiscs to for application to incoming traffic, as you would to the root hook 
for egress traffic.

http://www.docum.org/docum.org/kptd/

> Thanks
>
> Ed W