[ale] Anyone good with traffic control?

Phil Turmel philip at turmel.org
Sun Apr 9 13:47:59 EDT 2023


I've done some, including using intermediate links to shape inbound.  I 
always have to open every scrap of docs any time I look at it. 
Skull-crushing.

Share more details of what you have and what you want.

On 4/8/23 18:24, Alex Carver via Ale wrote:
> I pretty much had the basics of that script in my old firewall except I 
> was using fq_codel because it's supposed to be slightly better 
> performance. New firewall is a bit of a larger beast and I'm running two 
> LANs and one WAN port with multiple static IPs assigned to the WAN so 
> lots of SNAT.
> 
> I wanted to try and redo the traffic shaping on the new router primarily 
> to make sure that my problems with service are the result of AT&T and 
> not just me. :)  But then again I'm getting tired of AT&T's customer 
> disservice and inability to provide anything faster than (an 
> anticipated) 25/5 (on a maybe perfect day) so I'll likely end up with 
> Spectrum soon. It's still asymmetric at an estimated 600/35 but it's 
> technically cheaper than AT&T and upload speeds would be roughly seven 
> times faster so VPNing into my home from elsewhere wouldn't be quite as 
> bad.
> 
> On 2023-04-08 14:18, Boris Borisov via Ale wrote:
>> I always used https://tldp.org/HOWTO/Adv-Routing-HOWTO/lartc.qdisc.html
>>
>> Not that I really understand it :)
>>
>> There is something i posted before. It is a traffic shaperscript file and
>> with good explanation on the bottom.
>>
>> https://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/download/HOWTOS/tc-readme.txt
>>
>> An yes I'm NOT an expert ...
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 3:11 PM Alex Carver via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I could use some help getting traffic control working to help with my
>>> asymmetric DSL. I just replaced my router with another multi-port box
>>> and I think I have some of the basics fixed up based on the
>>> bufferbloat.net instructions but some additional input or suggestions
>>> may be useful. Any of you out there have a better understanding of TC
>>> than I do?



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