[LARTC] Fair que between 255 users

[Marco Aurelio]

WRR worked for me in the past but it is not maintained anymore.

On 10/30/07, Jens Thiele <karme at berlios.de> wrote:
> On 29 Okt 2007, peet at altlinux.org wrote:
>
> > В сообщении от Monday 29 October 2007 22:46:39 Thomas Elsgaard
> > написал(а):
> >> Hello guys
> >>
> >> I have a subnet with 255 users, which need to share 1 single slow
> >> internet connection, so i would like to implement a kind of *fair
> >> queuing *on the UPLOAD between them, which means that they all share
> >> the connection equally..
> >>
> >> The tools that i have available is: A linux box with IPROUTE2,HTB and
> >> TC..
> >>
> >> I have looked at some examples, and my first idea was to make 255
> >> entries in iproute2, marking each source IP from 1-255 , and then
> >> adding one class in HTB, with 255 childs... but isn't there a smarter
> >> way?
> >>
> >> Does anyone have an example? or a good idea
> > <skip />
> >
> > simply sfq -- is enough, isn't it?
>
> No (at least not yet?)
>
> Quoting the man page (man sfq):
> "SFQ  does not  shape traffic  but  only schedules  the transmission  of
> packets, based on 'flows'.  The goal  is to ensure fairness so that each
> flow is able to send data  in turn, thus preventing any single flow from
> drowning out the rest."
>
> And:
> "SFQ  is work-conserving and therefore  always delivers a  packet if it
> has one available."
>
> ESFQ might help. Using google:
> http://fatooh.org/esfq-2.6/
>
> Note:
> Corey  Hickey is  working  on  getting some  ESFQ  features into  kernel
> mainline SFQ:
> Search for "SFQ: backport some features from ESFQ (try 5)" on netdev ml.
>
> Greetings
> Jens
>
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