shorewall_code/manpages6/shorewall6-tcdevices.xml

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    <refentrytitle>shorewall6-tcdevices</refentrytitle>

    <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
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  <refnamediv>
    <refname>tcdevices</refname>

    <refpurpose>Shorewall6 Traffic Shaping Devices file</refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>

  <refsynopsisdiv>
    <cmdsynopsis>
      <command>/etc/shorewall6/tcdevices</command>
    </cmdsynopsis>
  </refsynopsisdiv>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Description</title>

    <para>Entries in this file define the bandwidth for interfaces on which
    you want traffic shaping to be enabled.</para>

    <para>If you do not plan to use traffic shaping for a device, don't put it
    in here as it limits the throughput of that device to the limits you set
    here.</para>

    <para>A note on the <emphasis>bandwidth</emphasis> definitions used in
    this file:</para>

    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para>don't use a space between the integer value and the unit: 30kbit
        is valid while 30 kbit is not.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>you can use one of the following units:</para>

        <variablelist>
          <varlistentry>
            <term><emphasis role="bold">kbps</emphasis></term>

            <listitem>
              <para>Kilobytes per second.</para>
            </listitem>
          </varlistentry>

          <varlistentry>
            <term><emphasis role="bold">mbps</emphasis></term>

            <listitem>
              <para>Megabytes per second.</para>
            </listitem>
          </varlistentry>

          <varlistentry>
            <term><emphasis role="bold">kbit</emphasis></term>

            <listitem>
              <para>Kilobits per second.</para>
            </listitem>
          </varlistentry>

          <varlistentry>
            <term><emphasis role="bold">mbit</emphasis></term>

            <listitem>
              <para>Megabits per second.</para>
            </listitem>
          </varlistentry>

          <varlistentry>
            <term><emphasis role="bold">bps</emphasis> or <emphasis
            role="bold">number</emphasis></term>

            <listitem>
              <para>Bytes per second.</para>
            </listitem>
          </varlistentry>
        </variablelist>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Only whole integers are allowed.</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <para>The columns in the file are as follows.</para>

    <variablelist>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><emphasis role="bold">INTERFACE</emphasis> -
        [<emphasis>number</emphasis>:]<emphasis>interface</emphasis></term>

        <listitem>
          <para>Name of <emphasis>interface</emphasis>. Each interface may be
          listed only once in this file. You may NOT specify the name of an
          alias (e.g., eth0:0) here; see <ulink
          url="http://www.shorewall.net/FAQ.htm#faq18">http://www.shorewall.net/FAQ.htm#faq18</ulink></para>

          <para>You may NOT specify wildcards here, e.g. if you have multiple
          ppp interfaces, you need to put them all in here!</para>

          <para>If the device doesn't exist, a warning message will be issued
          during "shorewall6 [re]start" and "shorewall6 refresh" and traffic
          shaping configuration will be skipped for that device.</para>

          <para>Shorewall6 assigns a sequential <firstterm>interface
          number</firstterm> to each interface (the first entry in the file is
          interface 1, the second is interface 2 and so on) Beginning with
          Shorewall6-perl 4.1.6, you can explicitly specify the interface
          number by prefixing the interface name with the number and a colon
          (":"). Example: 1:eth0.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><emphasis role="bold">IN-BANDWIDTH</emphasis> - <emphasis
        role="bold"><replaceable>bandwidth</replaceable>[:<replaceable>burst</replaceable>]</emphasis></term>

        <listitem>
          <para>The incoming <emphasis>bandwidth</emphasis> of that interface.
          Please note that you are not able to do traffic shaping on incoming
          traffic, as the traffic is already received before you could do so.
          But this allows you to define the maximum traffic allowed for this
          interface in total, if the rate is exceeded, the packets are
          dropped. You want this mainly if you have a DSL or Cable connection
          to avoid queuing at your providers side.</para>

          <para>If you don't want any traffic to be dropped, set this to a
          value to zero in which case Shorewall6 will not create an ingress
          qdisc.Must be set to zero if the REDIRECTED INTERFACES column is
          non-empty.</para>

          <para>The optional burst option was added in Shorewall6 4.4.18. The
          default <replaceable>burst</replaceable> is 10kb. A larger
          <replaceable>burst</replaceable> can help make the
          <replaceable>bandwidth</replaceable> more accurate; often for fast
          lines, the enforced rate is well below the specified
          <replaceable>bandwidth</replaceable>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><emphasis role="bold">OUT-BANDWIDTH</emphasis> -
        <emphasis>bandwidth</emphasis></term>

        <listitem>
          <para>The outgoing <emphasis>bandwidth</emphasis> of that interface.
          This is the maximum speed your connection can handle. It is also the
          speed you can refer as "full" if you define the tc classes in <ulink
          url="shorewall6-tcclasses.html">shorewall6-tcclasses</ulink>(5).
          Outgoing traffic above this rate will be dropped.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><emphasis role="bold">OPTIONS</emphasis> - {<emphasis
        role="bold">-</emphasis>|<emphasis
        role="bold">{classify</emphasis>|hfsc} ,...}</term>

        <listitem>
          <para><option>classify</option> ― When specified, Shorewall will not
          generate tc or Netfilter rules to classify traffic based on packet
          marks. You must do all classification using CLASSIFY rules in <ulink
          url="shorewall-tcrules.html">shorewall-tcrules</ulink>(5).</para>

          <para><option>hfsc</option> - Shorewall normally uses the
          <firstterm>Hierarchical Token Bucket</firstterm> queuing discipline.
          When <option>hfsc</option> is specified, the <firstterm>Hierarchical
          Fair Service Curves</firstterm> discipline is used instead.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><emphasis role="bold">REDIRECTED INTERFACES</emphasis> -
        [<emphasis>interface</emphasis>[,<emphasis>interface</emphasis>]...]</term>

        <listitem>
          <para>Added in Shorewall6-perl 4.1.6. May only be specified if the
          interface in the INTERFACE column is an Intermediate Frame Block
          (IFB) device. Causes packets that enter each listed interface to be
          passed through the egress filters defined for this device, thus
          providing a form of incoming traffic shaping. When this column is
          non-empty, the <emphasis role="bold">classify</emphasis> option is
          assumed.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Examples</title>

    <variablelist>
      <varlistentry>
        <term>Example 1:</term>

        <listitem>
          <para>Suppose you are using PPP over Ethernet (DSL) and ppp0 is the
          interface for this. The device has an outgoing bandwidth of 500kbit
          and an incoming bandwidth of 6000kbit</para>

          <programlisting>        #INTERFACE   IN-BANDWIDTH    OUT-BANDWIDTH         OPTIONS         REDIRECTED
        #                                                                  INTERFACES
        1:ppp0         6000kbit        500kbit</programlisting>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>FILES</title>

    <para>/etc/shorewall6/tcdevices</para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>See ALSO</title>

    <para><ulink
    url="http://shorewall.net/traffic_shaping.htm">http://shorewall.net/traffic_shaping.htm</ulink></para>

    <para>shorewall6(8), shorewall6-accounting(5), shorewall6-actions(5),
    shorewall6-blacklist(5), shorewall6-hosts(5), shorewall6-interfaces(5),
    shorewall6-maclist(5), shoewall6-netmap(5),shorewall6-params(5), shorewall6-policy(5),
    shorewall6-providers(5), shorewall6-route_rules(5),
    shorewall6-routestopped(5), shorewall6-rules(5), shorewall6.conf(5),
    shorewall6-secmarks(5), shorewall6-tcclasses(5), shorewall6-tcrules(5),
    shorewall6-tos(5), shorewall6-tunnels(5), shorewall6-zones(5)</para>
  </refsect1>
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