Re: traffic shaper in 2.4.18 working?

[bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>]

On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 01:56:49PM -0600, Benson Chow wrote:
> (initial conditions)
> I have two existing IP addresses on eth0 belonging to the same subnet as a
> virtual host.  This machine is a dual CPU box at 450MHz with an Intel
> EtherPro 100.
> 
> (what I've done)
> I've executed:
> shapecfg attach shaper0 eth0
> shapecfg speed shaper0 19000
> ifconfig shaper0 10.0.0.80
> 
> However, it seems whenever I subsequently connect to this
> machine's 10.0.0.80 from another machine, it still transmits at full
> bandwidth of the media and not the 19K (Bytes/sec?) that I expect?
> 
> Is this a proper usage of this device or is it a bug?

Add a route to your remote machine via shaper0 and check again. Linux does
not automatically route traffic with the source address of an interface out
over that interface. This is not a bug. If you want to force this, use
policy routing.

See http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.html 

Regards,

bert hubert

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