[LARTC] Re: HTB

[Christian Benvenuti]

Hi, 

>What exactly happens if the sum of the children classes rate is bigger
>than the parent's?

I would say that in most cases it would be a misconfiguration, especially
if you have more layers of HTB classes. The bw you configure with rate
is not going to be reserved properly if you do not respect the rule
rate(parent)>=Sum of rates(children).
Anyway, the parent node does not throttle the children classes. Parents
are there mainly to allow borrowing and sharing between sibling/descendant
classes.

>What if the majority of these classes are using less than the minimum
>rate established (eg. 0kbps)?

Why should this be a problem?
In this case a class simply uses less than what it has been allocated.
Depending on your configuration, other classes would probably be able
to borrow more.

Regards
/Christian
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