[LARTC] tc (CBQ) and UDP packets

Andy Furniss lists at andyfurniss.entadsl.com
Wed Apr 11 00:19:36 CEST 2007


Pablo Fernandes Yahoo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  
> 
> I have seen in my site something strange. I use tc-CBQ for bandwidth
> shaping, and it works properly well. Sometimes i have seen UDP connections
> spend more bandwidth than i set up to the user. I have 4 sites, and it
> always happens. Is there a problem with bandwidth shaping and UDP packets?

I have never used CBQ. It could be that you are measuring the bandwidth 
before the queue - UDP won't usually back off in response to delay/drop 
like TCP does.

Andy.


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