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<articleinfo>
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<title>Simple 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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</authorgroup>
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<pubdate><?dbtimestamp format="Y/m/d"?></pubdate>
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<copyright>
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<year>2009</year>
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<year>2010</year>
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<holder>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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<section>
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<title>Introduction</title>
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<para>Traffic shaping and control was originally introduced into Shorewall
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in version 2.2.5. That facility was based on Arne Bernin's
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<firstterm>tc4shorewall</firstterm> and is generally felt to be complex
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and difficult to use.</para>
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<para>In Shorewall 4.4.6, a second traffic shaping facility that is simple
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to understand and to configure was introduced. This newer facility is
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described in this document while the original facility is documented in
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<ulink url="traffic_shaping.htm">Complex Traffic
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Shaping/Control</ulink>.</para>
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</section>
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<section>
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<title>Enabling Simple Traffic Shaping</title>
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<para>Simple traffic shaping is enabled by setting TC_ENABLED=Simple in
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<ulink url="manpages/shorewall.conf.html">shorewall.conf</ulink>(5). You
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then add an entry for your external interface to <ulink
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url="manpages/shorewall-tcinterfaces.html">shorewall-tcinterfaces</ulink>(5)
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(<filename>/etc/shorewall/tcinterfaces</filename>).</para>
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<para>Assuming that your external interface is eth0:</para>
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<programlisting>#INTERFACE TYPE IN-BANDWIDTH
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eth0 External</programlisting>
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<para>With this simple configuration, packets to be sent through interface
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eth0 will be assigned to a priority band based on the value of their TOS
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field:</para>
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<programlisting>TOS Bits Means Linux Priority BAND
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------------------------------------------------------------
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0x0 0 Normal Service 0 Best Effort 2
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0x2 1 Minimize Monetary Cost 1 Filler 3
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0x4 2 Maximize Reliability 0 Best Effort 2
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0x6 3 mmc+mr 0 Best Effort 2
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0x8 4 Maximize Throughput 2 Bulk 3
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0xa 5 mmc+mt 2 Bulk 3
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0xc 6 mr+mt 2 Bulk 3
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0xe 7 mmc+mr+mt 2 Bulk 3
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0x10 8 Minimize Delay 6 Interactive 1
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0x12 9 mmc+md 6 Interactive 1
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0x14 10 mr+md 6 Interactive 1
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0x16 11 mmc+mr+md 6 Interactive 1
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0x18 12 mt+md 4 Int. Bulk 2
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0x1a 13 mmc+mt+md 4 Int. Bulk 2
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0x1c 14 mr+mt+md 4 Int. Bulk 2
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0x1e 15 mmc+mr+mt+md 4 Int. Bulk 2</programlisting>
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<para>When dequeueing, band 1 is tried first and only if it did not
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deliver a packet does the system try band 2, and so onwards. Maximum
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reliability packets should therefore go to band 1, minimum delay to band 2
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and the rest to band 3.</para>
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<note>
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<para>If you run both an IPv4 and an IPv6 firewall on your system, you
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should define each interface in only one of the two
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configurations.</para>
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</note>
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</section>
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<section>
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<title>Customizing Simple Traffic Shaping</title>
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<para>The default mapping of TOS to bands can be changed using the
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TC_PRIOMAP setting in <ulink
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url="manpages/shorewall.conf.html">shorewall.conf</ulink>(5). The default
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setting of this option is:</para>
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<programlisting>TC_PRIOMAP="2 3 3 3 2 3 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2"</programlisting>
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<para>These entries map Linux Priority to priority BAND. So only entries
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0, 1, 2, 4 and 6 in the map are relevant to TOS->BAND mapping.</para>
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<para>Further customizations can be defined in <ulink
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url="manpages/shorewall-tcpri.html">shorewall-tcpri</ulink>(5)
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(<filename>/etc/shorewall/tcpri</filename>). Using that file, you
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can:</para>
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<orderedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>Assign traffic entering the firewall on a particular interface
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to a specific priority band:</para>
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<programlisting>#BAND PROTO PORT(S) ADDRESS INTERFACE HELPER
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2 - - - eth1</programlisting>
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<para>In this example, traffic from eth1 will be assigned to priority
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band 2.</para>
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<note>
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<para>When an INTERFACE is specified, the PROTO, PORT(S) and ADDRESS
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column must contain '-'.</para>
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</note>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Assign traffic from a particular IP address to a specific
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priority band:</para>
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<programlisting>#BAND PROTO PORT(S) ADDRESS INTERFACE HELPER
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1 - - 192.168.1.44</programlisting>
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<para>In this example, traffic from 192.168.1.44 will be assigned to
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priority band 1.</para>
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<note>
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<para>When an ADDRESS is specified, the PROTO, PORT(S) and INTERFACE
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columns must be empty.</para>
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</note>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Assign traffic to/from a particular application to a specific
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priority band:</para>
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<programlisting>#BAND PROTO PORT(S) ADDRESS INTERFACE HELPER
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1 udp 1194</programlisting>
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<para>In that example, OpenVPN traffic is assigned to priority band
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1.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Assign traffic that uses a particular Netfilter helper to a
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particular priority band:</para>
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<programlisting>#BAND PROTO PORT(S) ADDRESS INTERFACE HELPER
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1 - - - - sip</programlisting>
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<para>In this example, SIP and associated RTP traffic will be assigned
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to priority band 1 (assuming that the nf_conntrack_sip helper is
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loaded).</para>
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</listitem>
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</orderedlist>
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<para>It is suggested that entries specifying an INTERFACE be placed the
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top of the file. That way, the band assigned to a particular packet will
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be the <emphasis role="bold">last</emphasis> entry matched by the packet.
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Packets which match no entry in <ulink
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url="manpages/shorewall-tcpri.html">shorewall-tcpri</ulink>(5) are
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assigned to priority bands using their TOS field as previously
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described.</para>
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<para>One cause of high latency on interactive traffic can be that queues
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are building up at your ISP's gateway router. If you suspect that is
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happening in your case, you can try to eliminate the problem by using the
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IN-BANDWIDTH setting in <ulink
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url="manpages/shorewall-tcinterfaces.html">shorewall-tcinterfaces</ulink>(5).
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The contents of the column are a <replaceable>rate</replaceable>. For
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defining the rate, use <emphasis role="bold">kbit</emphasis> or <emphasis
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role="bold">kbps</emphasis> (for Kilobytes per second) and make sure there
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is NO space between the number and the unit (it is 100kbit not 100 kbit).
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<emphasis role="bold">mbit</emphasis>, <emphasis
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role="bold">mbps</emphasis> or a raw number (which means bytes) can be
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used, but note that only integer numbers are supported (0.5 is not valid).
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To pick an appropriate setting, we recommend that you start by setting
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IN-BANDWIDTH significantly below your measured download bandwidth (20% or
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so). While downloading, measure the ping response time from the firewall
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to the upstream router as you gradually increase the setting. The optimal
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setting is at the point beyond which the ping time increases sharply as
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you increase the setting.</para>
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<para>Simple Traffic Shaping is only appropriate on interfaces where
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output queuing occurs. As a consequence, you usually only use it on
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extermal interfaces. There are cases where you may need to use it on an
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internal interface (a VPN interface, for example). If so, just add an
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entry to <ulink
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url="manpages/shorewall-tcinterfaces.html">shorewall-tcinterfaces</ulink>(5):</para>
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<programlisting>#INTERFACE TYPE IN-BANDWIDTH
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tun0 Internal</programlisting>
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</section>
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<section>
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<title>Additional Reading</title>
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<para>The PRIO(8) (tc-prio) manpage has additional information on the
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facility that Shorewall Simple Traffic Shaping is based on.</para>
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<caution>
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<para>Please note that Shorewall numbers the bands 1-3 whereas PRIO(8)
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refers to them as bands 0-2.</para>
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</caution>
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</section>
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</article>
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