[LARTC] Re: Trying to do some very simple ingress limiting, no success

[richard lucassen]

On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 15:51:47 +0200
Erik Slagter <erik at slagter.name> wrote:

> > That's IFB, not IMQ. IFB is an intermediate functional block that
> > appeared in kernel 2.6.16. IFB is a device, IMQ is a iptables target
> > (and a device)
> > 
> > And IMQ is a kernel patch (and iptables has to be patched as well)
> > while IFB is in the mainstream kernel.
> 
> Sorry for the mix-up.
> 
> Anyway, the result is the same.
> 
> Cannot use IMQ because patching iproute2 is not feasible, cannot use
> IFB because it's at the wrong location in the chain.

You don't need to patch iproute2 for IMQ, just iptables and the kernel.
IMQ lives well together with all other stuff AFAIK.
 
R.

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