[LARTC] Fair que between 255 users

[Aleksander Kamenik]

Peter V. Saveliev wrote:

> simply sfq -- is enough, isn't it?

sfq is great actually, but it works for connections. If you have say 10 
users and 9 of them each have 1 active ftp RETR connections but the 10th 
user has 100 active ftp RETR connections, then he gets 99,9% of traffic, 
doesn't he? (just an example)

I think what the GP is looking for, as am I, is a simple way of giving 
each user an equal share of the bandwidth.

This can be achieved for example by hundreds of HTB classes. But that's 
the rub. I have 20 /24 internal networks which amounts to a maximum of 
5000+ unique IP's which DHCP gives out. There are only about 500 active 
users though and the total number of users (active at least once a 
month) is probably around 1000.

I don't think it makes sense to create 5000 htb leaf classes and let 
them all borrow from each other. 90% of them would be _only_ lending and 
10% would be fighting over who gets the small bit of it.

What I'm looking for is something like the ISP's use. Like sfq which 
creates fair queues per connections pools where each pool is a bunch of 
connections from/to the same IP addr. Is there something like this for 
linux?


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