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<articleinfo>
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<title>Traffic Shaping/Control</title>
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<authorgroup>
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<author>
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<firstname>Tom</firstname>
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<surname>Eastep</surname>
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</author>
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<author>
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<firstname>Arne</firstname>
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<surname>Bernin</surname>
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</author>
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</authorgroup>
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<pubdate><?dbtimestamp format="Y/m/d"?></pubdate>
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<copyright>
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<year>2001-2007</year>
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<holder>Thomas M. Eastep</holder>
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</copyright>
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<copyright>
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<year>2005</year>
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<holder>Arne Bernin & Thomas M. Eastep</holder>
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</copyright>
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<legalnotice>
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<para>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
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document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version
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1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with
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no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover, and with no Back-Cover
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Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
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<quote><ulink url="GnuCopyright.htm">GNU Free Documentation
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License</ulink></quote>.</para>
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</legalnotice>
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</articleinfo>
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<important>
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<para>Traffic shaping is complex and the Shorewall community is not well
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equiped to answer traffic shaping questions. So if you are the type of
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person who needs "insert tab A into slot B" instructions for everything
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that you do, then please don't try to implement traffic shaping using
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Shorewall. You will just frustrate yourself and we won't be able to help
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you.</para>
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</important>
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<warning>
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<para>Said another way, reading just Shorewall documentation is not going
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to give you enough background to use this material.</para>
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<para>At a minimum, you will need to refer to at least the following
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additional information:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>The LARTC HOWTO: <ulink
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url="http://www.lartc.org">http://www.lartc.org</ulink></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>The HTB User's Guide: <ulink
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url="http://luxik.cdi.cz/~devik/qos/htb/manual/userg.htm">http://luxik.cdi.cz/~devik/qos/htb/manual/userg.htm</ulink></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Some of the documents listed at <ulink
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url="http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/index.html#documentation-howto">http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/index.html#documentation-howto</ulink>.
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The tutorial by Oskar Andreasson is particularly good.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>The output of <command>man iptables</command></para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</warning>
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<section>
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<title>Introduction</title>
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<para>Starting with Version 2.5.5, Shorewall has builtin support for
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traffic shaping and control. Before this version, the support was quite
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limited. You were able to use your own tcstart script (and you still are),
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but besides the tcrules file it was not possible to define classes or
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queueing discplines inside the Shorewall config files.</para>
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<para>The support for traffic shaping and control still does not cover all
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options available (and especially all algorithms that can be used to queue
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traffic) in the Linux kernel but it should fit most needs. If you are
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using your own script for traffic control and you still want to use it in
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the future, you will find information on how to do this, <link
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linkend="owntcstart"> later in this document</link>. But for this to work,
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you will also need to enable traffic shaping in the kernel and Shorewall
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as covered by the next sections.</para>
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</section>
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<section>
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<title>Linux traffic shaping and control</title>
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<para>This section gives a brief introduction of how controlling traffic
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with the linux kernel works. Although this might be enough for configuring
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it in the Shorewall configuration files, we strongly recommend that you
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take a deeper look into the <ulink url="http://lartc.org/howto/">Linux
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Advanced Routing and Shaping HOWTO</ulink>. At the time of writing this,
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the current version is 1.0.0.</para>
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<para>Since kernel 2.2 Linux has extensive support for controlling
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traffic. You can define different algorithms that are used to queue the
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traffic before it leaves an interface. The standard one is called pfifo
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and is (as the name suggests) of the type First In First out. This means,
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that it does not shape anything, if you have a connection that eats up all
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your bandwidth, this qeueing algorithm will not stop it from doing
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so.</para>
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<para>For Shorewall traffic shaping we use two algorithms, one is called
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HTB (Hierarchical Token Bucket) and SFQ (Stochastic Fairness Queuing). SFQ
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is easy to explain: it just tries to track your connections (tcp or udp
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streams) and balances the traffic between them. This normally works well.
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HTB allows you to define a set of classes, and you can put the traffic you
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want into these classes. You can define minimum and maximum bandwitdh
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settings for those classes and order them hierachically (the less
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priorized classes only get bandwitdth if the more important have what they
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need). Shorewall builtin traffic shaping allows you to define these
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classes (and their bandwidth limits), and it uses SFQ inside these classes
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to make sure, that different data streams are handled equally.</para>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">You can only shape outgoing traffic. The
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reason for this is simple, the packets were already received by your
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network card before you can decide what to do with them</emphasis>. So the
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only choice would be to drop them which normally makes no sense (since you
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received the packet already, it went through the possible bottleneck (the
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incoming connection). The next possible bottleneck might come if the
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packet leaves on another interface, so this will be the place where
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queuing might occur. So, defining queues for incoming packets is not very
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useful, you just want to have it forwarded to the outgoing interface as
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fast as possible.</para>
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<para>There is one exception, though. Limiting incoming traffic to a value
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a bit slower than your actual line speed will avoid queueing on the other
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end of that connection. This is mostly useful if you don't have access to
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traffic control on the other side and if this other side has a faster
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network connection than you do (the line speed between the systems is the
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bottleneck, e.g. a DSL or Cable Modem connection to your provider's
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router, the router itself is normally connected to a much faster
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backbone). So, if you drop packets that are coming in too fast, the
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underlying protocol might recognize this and slow down the connection. TCP
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has a builtin mechanism for this, UDP has not (but the protocol over UDP
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might recognize it , if there is any).</para>
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<para>The reason why queing is bad in these cases is, that you might have
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packets which need to be priorized over others, e.g. VoIP or ssh. For this
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type of connections it is important that packets arrive in a certain
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amount of time. For others like http downloads, it does not really matter
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if it takes a few seconds more.</para>
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<para>If you have a large queue on the other side and the router there
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does not care about QoS or the QoS bits are not set properly, your
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important packets will go into the same queue as your less timecritical
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download packets which will result in a large delay.</para>
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<para>You shape and control outgoing traffic by assigning the traffic to
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<firstterm>classes</firstterm>. Each class is associated with exactly one
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network interface and has a number of attributes:</para>
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<orderedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>PRIORITY - Used to give preference to one class over another
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when selecting a packet to send. The priority is a numeric value with
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1 being the highest priority, 2 being the next highest, and so
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on.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>RATE - The minimum bandwidth this class should get, when the
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traffic load rises. Classes with a higher priority (lower PRIORITY
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value) are served even if there are others that have a guaranteed
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bandwith but have a lower priority (higher PRIORITY value).</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>CEIL - The maximum bandwidth the class is allowed to use when
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the link is idle.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>MARK - Netfilter has a facility for
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<firstterm>marking</firstterm> packets. Packet marks have a numeric
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value which is limited in Shorewall to the values 1-255. You assign
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packet marks to different types of traffic using entries in the
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<filename>/etc/shorewall/tcrules</filename> file.</para>
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</listitem>
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</orderedlist>
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<para>One class for each interface must be designated as the
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<firstterm>default class</firstterm>. This is the class to which unmarked
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traffic (packets to which you have not assigned a mark value in
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<filename>/etc/shorewall/tcrules</filename>) is assigned.</para>
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<para>Netfilter also supports a mark value on each connection. You can
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assign connection mark values in
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<filename>/etc/shorewall/tcrules</filename>, you can copy the current
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packet's mark to the connection mark (SAVE), or you can copy the
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connection mark value to the current packet's mark (RESTORE).</para>
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</section>
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<section>
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<title>Linux Kernel Configuration</title>
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<para>You will need at least kernel 2.4.18 for this to work, please take a
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look at the following screenshot for what settings you need to enable. For
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builtin support, you need the HTB scheduler, the Ingress scheduler, the
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PRIO pseudoscheduler and SFQ queue. The other scheduler or queue
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algorithms are not needed.</para>
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<para>You also need the u32 and fw classifiers from near the bottom of the
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main Networking Options menu (not shown).</para>
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<para>This screen shot shows how I've configured QoS in my 2.6.13
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Kernel:<graphic align="center" fileref="images/QoS.png" /></para>
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<para>Kernel configuration changed in 2.6.16 -- here's my
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recommendation.</para>
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<graphic align="center" fileref="images/traffic_shaping2.6.png" />
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</section>
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<section>
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<title>Enable TC support in Shorewall</title>
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<para>You need this support whether you use the builtin support or whether
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you provide your own tcstart script.</para>
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<para>To enable the builtin traffic shaping and control in Shorewall, you
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have to do the following:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>Set <emphasis role="bold">TC_ENABLED</emphasis> to "Internal" in
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/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf. Setting TC_ENABLED=Yes causes Shorewall
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to look for an external tcstart file (See <link linkend="tcstart">a
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later section</link> for details).</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Setting <emphasis role="bold">CLEAR_TC</emphasis> parameter in
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/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf to Yes will clear the traffic shaping
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configuration during Shorewall [re]start and Shorewall stop. This is
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normally what you want when using the builtin support (and also if you
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use your own tcstart script)</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>The other steps that follow depend on whether you use your own
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script or the builtin solution. They will be explained in the
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following sections.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</section>
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<section>
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<title>Using builtin traffic shaping/control</title>
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<para>Shorewall's builtin traffic shaping feature provides a thin layer on
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top of the ingress qdesc, HTB and SFQ. That translation layer allows you
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to:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>Define HTB classes using Shorewall-style column-oriented
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configuration files.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Integrate the reloading of your traffic shaping configuration
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with the reloading of your packet-filtering and marking
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configuration.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Assign traffic to HTB classes by TOS value.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Assign outgoing TCP ACK packets to an HTB class.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Assign traffic to HTB classes based on packet mark value.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<warning>
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<para>Shorewall's builtin traffic shaping feature is limited to ten (10)
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devices.</para>
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</warning>
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<para>Those few features are really all that builtin traffic
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shaping/control provides; consequently, you need to understand HTB and
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Linux traffic shaping as well as Netfilter packet marking in order to use
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the facility. Again, please see the links at top of this article.</para>
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<para>For defining bandwidths (for either devices or classes) please use
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kbit or kbps(for Kilobytes per second) and make sure there is <emphasis
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role="bold">NO</emphasis> space between the number and the unit (it is
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100kbit <emphasis role="bold">not</emphasis> 100 kbit). Using mbit, mbps
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or a raw number (which means bytes) could be used, but note that only
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integer numbers are supported (0.5 is <emphasis role="bold">not
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valid</emphasis>).</para>
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<para>To properly configure the settings for your devices you might need
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to find out the real up- and downstream rates you have. This is especially
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the case, if you are using a DSL connection or one of another type that do
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not have a guaranteed bandwidth. Don't trust the values your provider
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tells you for this; especially measuring the real download speed is
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important! There are several online tools that help you find out; search
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for "dsl speed test" on google (For Germany you can use <ulink
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url="http://www.speedcheck.arcor.de/cgi-bin/speedcheck.cgi">arcor speed
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check</ulink>). Be sure to choose a test located near you.</para>
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<section>
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<title>/etc/shorewall/tcdevices</title>
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<para>This file allows you to define the incoming and outgoing bandwidth
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for the devices you want traffic shaping to be enabled. That means, if
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you want to use traffic shaping for a device, you have to define it
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here.</para>
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<para>Columns in the file are as follows:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>INTERFACE - Name of interface. Each interface may be listed
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only once in this file. You may NOT specify the name of an alias
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(e.g., eth0:0) here; see <ulink url="FAQ.htm#faq18">FAQ #18</ulink>.
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You man NOT specify wildcards here, e.g. if you have multiple ppp
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interfaces, you need to put them all in here! With Shorewall
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versions prior to 3.0.8 and 3.2.0 Beta 8, the device named in this
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column must exist at the time that Shorewall is started, restarted
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or refreshed. Beginning with Shorewall 3.0.8 and 3.2.0 Beta 8,
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Shorewall will determine if the device exists and will only
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configure the device if it does exist. If it doesn't exist, the
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following warning is issued:</para>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">WARNING: Device <device name> not
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found -- traffic-shaping configuration skipped</emphasis></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>IN-BANDWIDTH - The incoming Bandwidth of that interface.
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Please note that you are not able to do traffic shaping on incoming
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traffic, as the traffic is already received before you could do so.
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This Column allows you to define the maximum traffic allowed for
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this interface in total, if the rate is exceeded, the packets are
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dropped. You want this mainly if you have a DSL or Cable Connection
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to avoid queuing at your providers side. If you don't want any
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traffic to be dropped set this to a value faster than your interface
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maximum rate (or to 0 (zero), if you are running Shorewall 3.2.6 or
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later).</para>
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<para>To determine the optimum value for this setting, we recommend
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that you start by setting it significantly below your measured
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download bandwidth (20% or so). While downloading, measure the
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<emphasis>ping</emphasis> response time from the firewall to the
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upstream router as you gradually increase the setting.The optimal
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setting is at the point beyond which the <emphasis>ping</emphasis>
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time increases sharply as you increase the setting.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>OUT-BANDWIDTH - Specifiy the outgoing bandwidth of that
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interface. This is the maximum speed your connection can handle. It
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is also the speed you can refer as "full" if you define the tc
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classes. Outgoing traffic above this rate will be dropped.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<example>
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<title></title>
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<para>Suppose you are using PPP over Ethernet (DSL) and ppp0 is the
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interface for this. The device has an outgoing bandwidth of 500kbit
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and an incoming bandwidth of 6000kbit</para>
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<programlisting>#INTERFACE IN-BANDWITH OUT-BANDWIDTH
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ppp0 6000kbit 500kbit</programlisting>
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</example>
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</section>
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<section>
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<title>/etc/shorewall/tcclasses</title>
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<para>This file allows you to define the actual classes that are used to
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split the outgoing traffic.</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>INTERFACE - Name of interface. Must match the name of an
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interface with an entry in
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<filename>/etc/shorewall/tcdevices</filename>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>MARK - The mark value which is an integer in the range 1-255.
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You define these marks in the tcrules file, marking the traffic you
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want to go into the queueing classes defined in here. You can use
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the same marks for different Interfaces.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>RATE - The minimum bandwidth this class should get, when the
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traffic load rises. Please note that first the classes which equal
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or a lesser priority value are served even if there are others that
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have a guaranteed bandwith but a lower priority. <emphasis
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role="bold">If the sum of the RATEs for all classes assigned to an
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INTERFACE exceed that interfaces's OUT-BANDWIDTH, then the
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OUT-BANDWIDTH limit will not be honored.</emphasis></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>CEIL - The maximum bandwidth this class is allowed to use when
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the link is idle. Useful if you have traffic which can get full
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speed when more important services (e.g. interactive like ssh) are
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not used. You can use the value "full" in here for setting the
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maximum bandwidth to the defined output bandwidth of that
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interface.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>PRIORITY - you have to define a priority for the class.
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packets in a class with a higher priority (=lesser value) are
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handled before less priorized onces. You can just define the mark
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value here also, if you are increasing the mark values with lesser
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priority.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>OPTIONS - A comma-separated list of options including the
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following:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>default - this is the default class for that interface
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where all traffic should go, that is not classified
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otherwise.</para>
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<note>
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<para>defining default for exactly <emphasis
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role="bold">one</emphasis> class per interface is
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mandatory!</para>
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</note>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>tos-<tosname> - this lets you define a filter for
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the given <tosname> which lets you define a value of the
|
|
Type Of Service bits in the ip package which causes the package
|
|
to go in this class. Please note, that this filter overrides all
|
|
mark settings, so if you define a tos filter for a class all
|
|
traffic having that mark will go in it regardless of the mark on
|
|
the package. You can use the following for this option:
|
|
tos-minimize-delay (16) tos-maximize-throughput (8)
|
|
tos-maximize-reliability (4) tos-minimize-cost (2)
|
|
tos-normal-service (0)</para>
|
|
|
|
<note>
|
|
<para>Each of this options is only valid for <emphasis
|
|
role="bold">one</emphasis> class per interface.</para>
|
|
</note>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>tcp-ack - if defined causes an tc filter to be created
|
|
that puts all tcp ack packets on that interface that have an
|
|
size of <=64 Bytes to go in this class. This is useful for
|
|
speeding up downloads. Please note that the size of the ack
|
|
packets is limited to 64 bytes as some applications (p2p for
|
|
example) use to make every package an ack package which would
|
|
cause them all into here. We want only packets WITHOUT payload
|
|
to match, so the size limit. Bigger packets just take their
|
|
normal way into the classes.</para>
|
|
|
|
<note>
|
|
<para>This option is only valid for <emphasis
|
|
role="bold">class</emphasis> per interface.</para>
|
|
</note>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</itemizedlist>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</itemizedlist>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section>
|
|
<title>/etc/shorewall/tcrules</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>The fwmark classifier provides a convenient way to classify
|
|
packets for traffic shaping. The <quote>/etc/shorewall/tcrules</quote>
|
|
file is used for specifying these marks in a tabular fashion. For an
|
|
in-depth look at the packet marking facility in Netfilter/Shorewall,
|
|
please see <ulink url="PacketMarking.html">this article</ulink>.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>Normally, packet marking occurs in the PREROUTING chain before any
|
|
address rewriting takes place. This makes it impossible to mark inbound
|
|
packets based on their destination address when SNAT or Masquerading are
|
|
being used. You can cause packet marking to occur in the FORWARD chain
|
|
by using the MARK_IN_FORWARD_CHAIN option in shorewall.conf.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>Columns in the file are as follows:</para>
|
|
|
|
<itemizedlist>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>MARK or CLASSIFY - MARK specifies the mark value is to be
|
|
assigned in case of a match. This is an integer in the range 1-255.
|
|
This value may be optionally followed by <quote>:</quote> and either
|
|
<quote>F</quote>, <quote>P</quote> or "T" to designate that the
|
|
marking will occur in the FORWARD, PREROUTING or POSTROUTING chains
|
|
respectively. If this additional specification is omitted, the chain
|
|
used to mark packets will be determined as follows:</para>
|
|
|
|
<itemizedlist>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>If the SOURCE is
|
|
$FW[:<<emphasis>address</emphasis>>], then the rule is
|
|
inserted in the OUTPUT chain.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>Otherwise, the chain is determined by the setting of the
|
|
MARK_IN_FORWARD_CHAIN option in shorewall.conf.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</itemizedlist>
|
|
|
|
<note>
|
|
<para>The "T" qualifier was added in Shorewall version 3.3.6 and
|
|
is not available in earlier versions.</para>
|
|
</note>
|
|
|
|
<para>Normally, the mark is applied to the packet. If you follow the
|
|
mark value with ":" and "C", then the mark is applied to the
|
|
connection. "C" can be combined with "F", "P" or "T" to designate
|
|
that the connection should be marked in a particular chain (e.g.,
|
|
"CF", "CP", "CT").</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>There are additional special values available:</para>
|
|
|
|
<orderedlist numeration="loweralpha">
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para><emphasis
|
|
role="bold">RESTORE</emphasis>[/<emphasis>mask</emphasis>] --
|
|
restore the packet's mark from the connection's mark using the
|
|
supplied mask if any. Your kernel and iptables must include
|
|
CONNMARK support.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>As above, may be followed by <emphasis
|
|
role="bold">:P</emphasis>, <emphasis role="bold">:F</emphasis>
|
|
or <emphasis role="bold">:T</emphasis>.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para><emphasis
|
|
role="bold">SAVE</emphasis>[/<emphasis>mask</emphasis>] -- save
|
|
the packet's mark to the connection's mark using the supplied
|
|
mask if any. Your kernel and iptables must include CONNMARK
|
|
support.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>As above, may be followed by <emphasis
|
|
role="bold">:P</emphasis>, <emphasis role="bold">:F</emphasis>
|
|
or <emphasis role="bold">:T</emphasis>.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">CONTINUE</emphasis> Don't process
|
|
any more marking rules in the table.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>As above, may be followed by <emphasis
|
|
role="bold">:P</emphasis>, <emphasis role="bold">:F</emphasis>
|
|
or <emphasis role="bold">:T</emphasis>.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">COMMENT</emphasis> (Added in
|
|
Shorewall version 3.3.3) -- the rest of the line will be
|
|
attached as a comment to the Netfilter rule(s) generated by the
|
|
following entries. The comment will appear delimited by "/* ...
|
|
*/" in the output of <command>shorewall show
|
|
mangle</command></para>
|
|
|
|
<para>To stop the comment from being attached to further rules,
|
|
simply include COMMENT on a line by itself.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</orderedlist>
|
|
|
|
<para>To use CLASSIFY, your kernel and iptables must include
|
|
CLASSIFY target support. In that case, this column contains a
|
|
classification (classid) of the form <major>:<minor>
|
|
where <major> and <minor> are integers. Corresponds to
|
|
the 'class' specification in these traffic shaping modules:</para>
|
|
|
|
<simplelist>
|
|
<member>atm</member>
|
|
|
|
<member>cbq</member>
|
|
|
|
<member>dsmark</member>
|
|
|
|
<member>pfifo_fast</member>
|
|
|
|
<member>htb</member>
|
|
|
|
<member>prio</member>
|
|
</simplelist>
|
|
|
|
<para>With Shorewall versions prior to 3.2.3, classify rules are
|
|
always placed in the POSTROUTING chain. Beginning with Shorewall
|
|
3.2.3, classification occurs in the POSTROUTING chain <emphasis
|
|
role="bold">except</emphasis> when the SOURCE contains
|
|
$FW[:<<emphasis>address</emphasis>>] in which case, the
|
|
classify action takes place in the OUTPUT chain. When used with the
|
|
builtin traffic shaper, the <major> class is the device number
|
|
(the first entry in <filename>/etc/shorewall/tcdevices</filename> is
|
|
device 1, the second is device 2 and so on) and the <minor>
|
|
class is the MARK value of the class preceded by the number "1"
|
|
(MARK value 1 is <minor> class 11, MARK value 22 is
|
|
<minor> class 122, and so on).</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>SOURCE - Source of the packet. A comma-separated list of
|
|
interface names, IP addresses, MAC addresses and/or subnets for
|
|
packets being routed through a common path. List elements may also
|
|
consist of an interface name followed by ":" and an address (e.g.,
|
|
eth1:192.168.1.0/24). For example, all packets for connections
|
|
masqueraded to eth0 from other interfaces can be matched in a single
|
|
rule with several alternative SOURCE criteria. However, a connection
|
|
whose packets gets to eth0 in a different way, e.g., direct from the
|
|
firewall itself, needs a different rule.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>Accordingly, use $FW in its own separate rule for packets
|
|
originating on the firewall. In such a rule, the MARK column may NOT
|
|
specify either ":P" or ":F" because marking for firewall-originated
|
|
packets always occurs in the OUTPUT chain.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>MAC addresses must be prefixed with "~" and use "-" as a
|
|
separator.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>Example: ~00-A0-C9-15-39-78</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>DEST - Destination of the packet. Comma separated list of IP
|
|
addresses and/or subnets. If your kernel and iptables include
|
|
iprange match support, IP address ranges are also allowed. List
|
|
elements may also consist of an interface name followed by ":" and
|
|
an address (e.g., eth1:192.168.1.0/24). If the MARK column
|
|
specificies a classification of the form <major>:<minor>
|
|
then this column may also contain an interface name.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>PROTO - Protocol - Must be "tcp", "udp", "icmp", "ipp2p",
|
|
"ipp2p:udp", "ipp2p:all" a number, or "all". "ipp2p" requires ipp2p
|
|
match support in your kernel and iptables.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>PORT(S) - Destination Ports. A comma-separated list of Port
|
|
names (from /etc/services), port numbers or port ranges; if the
|
|
protocol is "icmp", this column is interpreted as the destination
|
|
icmp-type(s).</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>If the protocol is ipp2p, this column is interpreted as an
|
|
ipp2p option without the leading "--" (example "bit" for
|
|
bit-torrent). If no PORT is given, "ipp2p" is assumed.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>This column is ignored if PROTOCOL = all but must be entered
|
|
if any of the following field is supplied. In that case, it is
|
|
suggested that this field contain "-"</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>CLIENT PORT(S) - (Optional) Port(s) used by the client. If
|
|
omitted, any source port is acceptable. Specified as a
|
|
comma-separate list of port names, port numbers or port
|
|
ranges.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>USER/GROUP (Added in Shorewall version 1.4.10) - (Optional)
|
|
This column may only be non-empty if the SOURCE is the firewall
|
|
itself. When this column is non-empty, the rule applies only if the
|
|
program generating the output is running under the effective user
|
|
and/or group. It may contain :</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>[!][<user name or number>]:[<group name or
|
|
number>][+<program name>]</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The colon is optionnal when specifying only a user.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>Examples:</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>joe #program must be run by joe
|
|
:kids #program must be run by a member of the 'kids' group
|
|
!:kids #program must not be run by a member of the 'kids' group
|
|
+upnpd #program named upnpd (This feature was removed from Netfilter in kernel version 2.6.14).</programlisting>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>TEST - Defines a test on the existing packet or connection
|
|
mark. The rule will match only if the test returns true. Tests have
|
|
the format [!]<value>[/<mask>][:C]</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>Where:</para>
|
|
|
|
<simplelist>
|
|
<member>! Inverts the test (not equal)</member>
|
|
|
|
<member><value> Value of the packet or connection
|
|
mark.</member>
|
|
|
|
<member><mask> A mask to be applied to the mark before
|
|
testing</member>
|
|
|
|
<member>:C Designates a connection mark. If omitted, the packet
|
|
mark's value is tested.</member>
|
|
</simplelist>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>LENGTH (Optional, added in Shorewall version 3.2.0) Packet
|
|
Length - This field, if present, allows you to match the length of a
|
|
packet against a specific value or range of values. A range is
|
|
specified in the form <min>:<max> where either
|
|
<min> or <max> (but not both) may be omitted. If
|
|
<min> is omitted, then 0 is assumed; if <max> is
|
|
omitted, than any packet that is <min> or longer will
|
|
match.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>You must have iptables length support for this to work. If you
|
|
let it empy or place an "-" here, no length match will be
|
|
done.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>Examples: 1024, 64:1500, :100</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>TOS (Optional, added in Shorewall version 3.2.0 Beta 6) Type
|
|
of Service. Either a standard name, or a numeric value to
|
|
match.</para>
|
|
|
|
<blockquote>
|
|
<simplelist>
|
|
<member>Minimize-Delay (16)</member>
|
|
|
|
<member>Maximize-Throughput (8)</member>
|
|
|
|
<member>Maximize-Reliability (4)</member>
|
|
|
|
<member>Minimize-Cost (2)</member>
|
|
|
|
<member>Normal-Service (0)</member>
|
|
</simplelist>
|
|
</blockquote>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</itemizedlist>
|
|
|
|
<example>
|
|
<title></title>
|
|
|
|
<para>All packets arriving on eth1 should be marked with 1. All
|
|
packets arriving on eth2 and eth3 should be marked with 2. All packets
|
|
originating on the firewall itself should be marked with 3.</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>#MARK SOURCE DESTINATION PROTOCOL PORT(S)
|
|
1 eth1 0.0.0.0/0 all
|
|
2 eth2 0.0.0.0/0 all
|
|
2 eth3 0.0.0.0/0 all
|
|
3 $FW 0.0.0.0/0 all</programlisting>
|
|
</example>
|
|
|
|
<example>
|
|
<title></title>
|
|
|
|
<para>All GRE (protocol 47) packets not originating on the firewall
|
|
and destined for 155.186.235.151 should be marked with 12.</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>#MARK SOURCE DESTINATION PROTOCOL PORT(S)
|
|
12 0.0.0.0/0 155.182.235.151 47</programlisting>
|
|
</example>
|
|
|
|
<example>
|
|
<title></title>
|
|
|
|
<para>All SSH request packets originating in 192.168.1.0/24 and
|
|
destined for 155.186.235.151 should be marked with 22.</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>#MARK SOURCE DESTINATION PROTOCOL PORT(S)
|
|
22 192.168.1.0/24 155.182.235.151 tcp 22</programlisting>
|
|
</example>
|
|
|
|
<example>
|
|
<title></title>
|
|
|
|
<para>All SSH packets packets going out of the first device in in
|
|
/etc/shorewall/tcdevices should be assigned to the class with mark
|
|
value 10.</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>#MARK SOURCE DESTINATION PROTOCOL PORT(S) CLIENT
|
|
# PORT(S)
|
|
1:110 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp 22
|
|
1:110 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp - 22</programlisting>
|
|
</example>
|
|
|
|
<example>
|
|
<title></title>
|
|
|
|
<para>Mark all ICMP echo traffic with packet mark 1. Mark all peer to
|
|
peer traffic with packet mark 4.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>This is a little more complex than otherwise expected. Since the
|
|
ipp2p module is unable to determine all packets in a connection are
|
|
P2P packets, we mark the entire connection as P2P if any of the
|
|
packets are determined to match. We assume packet/connection mark 0 to
|
|
means unclassified.</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>#MARK SOURCE DESTINATION PROTOCOL PORT(S) CLIENT USER/ TEST
|
|
# PORT(S) GROUP
|
|
1 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 icmp echo-request
|
|
1 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 icmp echo-reply
|
|
|
|
RESTORE 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 all - - - 0
|
|
CONTINUE 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 all - - - !0
|
|
4 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 ipp2p:all
|
|
SAVE 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 all - - - !0</programlisting>
|
|
|
|
<para>The last four rules can be translated as:</para>
|
|
|
|
<blockquote>
|
|
<para>"If a packet hasn't been classifed (packet mark is 0), copy
|
|
the connection mark to the packet mark. If the packet mark is set,
|
|
we're done. If the packet is P2P, set the packet mark to 4. If the
|
|
packet mark has been set, save it to the connection mark."</para>
|
|
</blockquote>
|
|
</example>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section>
|
|
<title>ppp devices</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>If you use ppp/pppoe/pppoa) to connect to your internet provider
|
|
and you use traffic shaping you need to restart shorewall traffic
|
|
shaping. The reason for this is, that if the ppp connection gets
|
|
restarted (and it usally does this at least daily), all
|
|
<quote>tc</quote> filters/qdiscs related to that interface are
|
|
deleted.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>The easiest way to achieve this, is just to restart shorewall once
|
|
the link is up. To achieve this add a small executable script
|
|
to<quote>/etc/ppp/ip-up.d</quote>.</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>#! /bin/sh
|
|
|
|
/sbin/shorewall refresh</programlisting>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section>
|
|
<title>Real life examples</title>
|
|
|
|
<section>
|
|
<title>Configuration to replace Wondershaper</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>You are able to fully replace the wondershaper script by using
|
|
the buitin traffic control.You can find example configuration files at
|
|
<ulink
|
|
url="http://www1.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Samples/tc4shorewall/">"http://www1.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Samples/tc4shorewall/</ulink>.
|
|
Please note that they are just examples and need to be adjusted to
|
|
work for you. In this examples it is assumed that your interface for
|
|
you internet connection is ppp0 (for DSL) , if you use another
|
|
connection type, you have to change it. You also need to change the
|
|
settings in the tcdevices.wondershaper file to reflect your line
|
|
speed. The relevant lines of the config files follow here. Please note
|
|
that this is just an 1:1 replacement doing exactly what wondershaper
|
|
should do. You are free to change it...</para>
|
|
|
|
<section>
|
|
<title>tcdevices file</title>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>#INTERFACE IN-BANDWITH OUT-BANDWIDTH
|
|
ppp0 5000kbit 500kbit</programlisting>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section>
|
|
<title>tcclasses file</title>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>#INTERFACE MARK RATE CEIL PRIORITY OPTIONS
|
|
ppp0 1 full full 1 tcp-ack,tos-minimize-delay
|
|
ppp0 2 9*full/10 9*full/10 2 default
|
|
ppp0 3 8*full/10 8*full/10 2</programlisting>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section>
|
|
<title>tcrules file</title>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>#MARK SOURCE DEST PROTO PORT(S) CLIENT USER
|
|
# PORT(S)
|
|
1:F 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 icmp echo-request
|
|
1:F 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 icmp echo-reply
|
|
# mark traffic which should have a lower priority with a 3:
|
|
# mldonkey
|
|
3 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 udp - 4666</programlisting>
|
|
|
|
<para>Wondershaper allows you to define a set of hosts and/or ports
|
|
you want to classify as low priority. To achieve this , you have to
|
|
add these hosts to tcrules and set the mark to 3 (true if you use
|
|
the example configuration files).</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section>
|
|
<title>Setting hosts to low priority</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>lets assume the following settings from your old wondershaper
|
|
script (don't assume these example values are really useful, they
|
|
are only used for demonstrating ;-):</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
# low priority OUTGOING traffic - you can leave this blank if you want
|
|
# low priority source netmasks
|
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NOPRIOHOSTSRC="192.168.1.128/25 192.168.3.28"
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# low priority destination netmasks
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NOPRIOHOSTDST=60.0.0.0/24
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# low priority source ports
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NOPRIOPORTSRC="6662 6663"
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# low priority destination ports
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NOPRIOPORTDST="6662 6663" </programlisting>
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<para>This would result in the following additional settings to the
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tcrules file:</para>
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<programlisting>3 192.168.1.128/25 0.0.0.0/0 all
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3 192.168.3.28 0.0.0.0/0 all
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3 0.0.0.0/0 60.0.0.0/24 all
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3 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 udp 6662,6663
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3 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 udp - 6662,6663
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3 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp 6662,6663
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3 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp - 6662,6663</programlisting>
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</section>
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</section>
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<section>
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<title>A simple setup</title>
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<para>This is a simple setup for people sharing an internet connection
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and using different computers for this. It just basically shapes
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between 2 hosts which have the ip addresses 192.168.2.23 and
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192.168.2.42</para>
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<section>
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<title>tcdevices file</title>
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<programlisting>#INTERFACE IN-BANDWITH OUT-BANDWIDTH
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ppp0 6000kbit 700kbit</programlisting>
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<para>We have 6mbit down and 700kbit upstream.</para>
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</section>
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<section>
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<title>tcclasses file</title>
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<programlisting>#INTERFACE MARK RATE CEIL PRIORITY OPTIONS
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ppp0 1 10kbit 50kbit 1 tcp-ack
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ppp0 2 300kbit full 2
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ppp0 3 300kbit full 2
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ppp0 4 90kbit 200kbit 3 default</programlisting>
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<para>We add a class for tcp ack packets with highest priority, so
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that downloads are fast. The following 2 classes share most of the
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bandwidth between the 2 hosts, if the connection is idle, they may
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use full speed. As the hosts should be treated equally they have the
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same priority. The last class is for the remaining traffic.</para>
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</section>
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<section>
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<title>tcrules file</title>
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<programlisting>#MARK SOURCE DEST PROTO PORT(S) CLIENT USER
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# PORT(S)
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1:F 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 icmp echo-request
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1:F 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 icmp echo-reply
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2:F 192.168.2.23 0.0.0.0/0 all
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3:F 192.168.2.42 0.0.0.0/0 all</programlisting>
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<para>We mark icmp ping and replies so they will go into the fast
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interactive class and set a mark for each host.</para>
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</section>
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</section>
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</section>
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</section>
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<section>
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<title>A Warning to Xen Users</title>
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<para>If you are running traffic shaping in your dom0 and traffic shaping
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doesn't seem to be limiting outgoing traffic properly, it may be due to
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"checksum offloading" in your domU(s). Check the output of "shorewall show
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tc". Here's an excerpt from the output of that command:</para>
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<programlisting>class htb 1:130 parent 1:1 leaf 130: prio 3 quantum 1500 rate 76000bit <emphasis
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role="bold">ceil 230000bit</emphasis> burst 1537b/8 mpu 0b overhead 0b cburst 1614b/8 mpu 0b overhead 0b level 0
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Sent 559018700 bytes 75324 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 0)
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<emphasis role="bold">rate 299288bit</emphasis> 3pps backlog 0b 0p requeues 0
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lended: 53963 borrowed: 21361 <emphasis role="bold">giants: 90174</emphasis>
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tokens: -26688 ctokens: -14783</programlisting>
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<para>There are two obvious problems in the above output:</para>
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<orderedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>The rate (299288) is considerably larger than the ceiling
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(230000).</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>There are a large number (90174) of giants reported.</para>
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</listitem>
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</orderedlist>
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<para>This problem will be corrected by disabling "checksum offloading" in
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your domU(s) using the <command>ethtool</command> utility. See the <ulink
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url="XenMyWay-Routed.html">one of the Xen articles</ulink> for
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instructions.</para>
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</section>
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<section>
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<title id="tcstart">Using your own tc script</title>
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<section id="owntcstart">
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<title>Replacing builtin tcstart file</title>
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<para>If you prefer your own tcstart file, just install it in
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/etc/shorewall/tcstart.</para>
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<para>In your tcstart script, when you want to run the <quote>tc</quote>
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utility, use the run_tc function supplied by Shorewall if you want tc
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errors to stop the firewall.</para>
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<orderedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>Set TC_ENABLED=Yes and CLEAR_TC=Yes</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Supply an /etc/shorewall/tcstart script to configure your
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traffic shaping rules.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Optionally supply an /etc/shorewall/tcclear script to stop
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traffic shaping. That is usually unnecessary.</para>
|
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</listitem>
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|
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<listitem>
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|
<para>If your tcstart script uses the <quote>fwmark</quote>
|
|
classifier, you can mark packets using entries in
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/etc/shorewall/tcrules.</para>
|
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</listitem>
|
|
</orderedlist>
|
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</section>
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|
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<section>
|
|
<title>Traffic control outside Shorewall</title>
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|
|
|
<para>To start traffic shaping when you bring up your network
|
|
interfaces, you will have to arrange for your traffic shaping
|
|
configuration script to be run at that time. How you do that is
|
|
distribution dependent and will not be covered here. You then
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|
should:</para>
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|
|
<orderedlist>
|
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<listitem>
|
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<para>Set TC_ENABLED=No and CLEAR_TC=No</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>If your script uses the <quote>fwmark</quote> classifier, you
|
|
can mark packets using entries in /etc/shorewall/tcrules.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</orderedlist>
|
|
</section>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
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<section>
|
|
<title>Testing Tools</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>At least one Shorewall user has found this tool helpful: <ulink
|
|
url="http://e2epi.internet2.edu/network-performance-toolkit.html">http://e2epi.internet2.edu/network-performance-toolkit.html</ulink></para>
|
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</section>
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</article> |