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TC !!!TC NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION QDISCS CLASSES FILTERS CLASSLESS QDISCS CONFIGURING CLASSLESS QDISCS CLASSFUL QDISCS THEORY OF OPERATION NAMING UNITS TC COMMANDS HISTORY SEE ALSO AUTHOR ---- !!NAME tc - show / manipulate traffic control settings !!SYNOPSIS __tc qdisc [[ add | change | replace | link ] dev__ DEV __[[ parent__ qdisc-id __| root ] [[ handle__ qdisc-id ] qdisc [[ qdisc specific parameters ] __tc class [[ add | change | replace ] dev__ DEV __parent__ qdisc-id __[[ classid__ class-id ] qdisc [[ qdisc specific parameters ] __tc filter [[ add | change | replace ] dev__ DEV __[[ parent__ qdisc-id __| root ] protocol__ protocol __prio__ priority filtertype [[ filtertype specific parameters ] __flowid__ flow-id __tc [[-s | -d ] qdisc show [[ dev__ DEV __]__ __tc [[-s | -d ] class show dev__ DEV __tc filter show dev__ DEV !!DESCRIPTION __Tc__ is used to configure Traffic Control in the Linux kernel. Traffic Control consists of the following: SHAPING When traffic is shaped, its rate of transmission is under control. Shaping may be more than lowering the available bandwidth - it is also used to smooth out bursts in traffic for better network behaviour. Shaping occurs on egress. SCHEDULING By scheduling the transmission of packets it is possible to improve interactivity for traffic that needs it while still guaranteeing bandwidth to bulk transfers. Reordering is also called prioritizing, and happens only on egress. POLICING Where shaping deals with transmission of traffic, policing pertains to traffic arriving. Policing thus occurs on ingress. DROPPING Traffic exceeding a set bandwidth may also be dropped forthwith, both on ingress and on egress. Processing of traffic is controlled by three kinds of objects: qdiscs, classes and filters. !!QDISCS __qdisc__ is short for 'queueing discipline' and it is elementary to understanding traffic control. Whenever the kernel needs to send a packet to an interface, it is __enqueued__ to the qdisc configured for that interface. Immediately afterwards, the kernel tries to get as many packets as possible from the qdisc, for giving them to the network adaptor driver. A simple QDISC is the 'pfifo' one, which does no processing at all and is a pure First In, First Out queue. It does however store traffic when the network interface can't handle it momentarily. !!CLASSES Some qdiscs can contain classes, which contain further qdiscs - traffic may then be enqueued in any of the inner qdiscs, which are within the __classes.__ When the kernel tries to dequeue a packet from such a __classful qdisc__ it can come from any of the classes. A qdisc may for example prioritize certain kinds of traffic by trying to dequeue from certain classes before others. !!FILTERS A __filter__ is used by a classful qdisc to determine in which class a packet will be enqueued. Whenever traffic arrives at a class with subclasses, it needs to be classified. Various methods may be employed to do so, one of these are the filters. All filters attached to the class are called, until one of them returns with a verdict. If no verdict was made, other criteria may be available. This differs per qdisc. It is important to notice that filters reside __within__ qdiscs - they are not masters of what happens. !!CLASSLESS QDISCS The classless qdiscs are: [[p|b]fifo Simplest usable qdisc, pure First In, First Out behaviour. Limited in packets or in bytes. pfifo_fast Standard qdisc for 'Advanced Router' enabled kernels. Consists of a three-band queue which honors Type of Service flags, as well as the priority that may be assigned to a packet. red Random Early Detection simulates physical congestion by randomly dropping packets when nearing configured bandwidth allocation. Well suited to very large bandwidth applications. sfq Stochastic Fairness Queueing reorders queued traffic so each 'session' gets to send a packet in turn. tbf The Token Bucket Filter is suited for slowing traffic down to a precisely configured rate. Scales well to large bandwidths. !!CONFIGURING CLASSLESS QDISCS In the absence of classful qdiscs, classless qdiscs can only be attached at the root of a device. Full syntax: __tc qdisc add dev__ DEV __root__ QDISC QDISC-PARAMETERS To remove, issue __tc qdisc del dev__ DEV __root__ The __pfifo_fast__ qdisc is the automatic default in the absence of a configured qdisc. !!CLASSFUL QDISCS The classful qdiscs are: CBQ Class Based Queueing implements a rich linksharing hierarchy of classes. It contains shaping elements as well as prioritizing capabilities. Shaping is performed using link idle time calculations based on average packet size and underlying link bandwidth. The latter may be ill-defined for some interfaces. HTB The Hierarchy Token Bucket implements a rich linksharing hierarchy of classes with an emphasis on conforming to existing practices. HTB facilitates guaranteeing bandwidth to classes, while also allowing specification of upper limits to inter-class sharing. It contains shaping elements, based on TBF and can prioritize classes. PRIO The PRIO qdisc is a non-shaping container for a configurable number of classes which are dequeued in order. This allows for easy prioritization of traffic, where lower classes are only able to send if higher ones have no packets available. To facilitate configuration, Type Of Service bits are honored by default. !!THEORY OF OPERATION Classes form a tree, where each class has a single parent. A class may have multiple children. Some qdiscs allow for runtime addition of classes (CBQ, HTB) while others (PRIO) are created with a static number of children. Qdiscs which allow dynamic addition of classes can have zero or more subclasses to which traffic may be enqueued. Furthermore, each class contains a __leaf qdisc__ which by default has __pfifo__ behaviour though another qdisc can be attached in place. This qdisc may again contain classes, but each class can have only one leaf qdisc. When a packet enters a classful qdisc it can be __classified__ to one of the classes within. Three criteria are available, although not all qdiscs will use all three: tc filters If tc filters are attached to a class, they are consulted first for relevant instructions. Filters can match on all fields of a packet header, as well as on the firewall mark applied by ipchains or iptables. See tc-filters(8). Type of Service Some qdiscs have built in rules for classifying packets based on the TOS field. skb- Userspace programs can encode a class-id in the 'skb- Each node within the tree can have its own filters but higher level filters may also point directly to lower classes. If classification did not succeed, packets are enqueued to the leaf qdisc attached to that class. Check qdisc specific manpages for details, however. !!NAMING All qdiscs, classes and filters have IDs, which can either be specified or be automatically assigned. IDs consist of a major number and a minor number, separated by a colon. QDISCS A qdisc, which potentially can have children, gets assigned a major number, called a 'handle', leaving the minor number namespace available for classes. The handle is expressed as '10:'. It is customary to explicitly assign a handle to qdiscs expected to have children. CLASSES Classes residing under a qdisc share their qdisc major number, but each have a separate minor number called a 'classid' that has no relation to their parent classes, only to their parent qdisc. The same naming custom as for qdiscs applies. FILTERS Filters have a three part ID, which is only needed when using a hashed filter hierarchy, for which see tc-filters(8). !!UNITS All parameters accept a floating point number, possibly followed by a unit. Bandwidths or rates can be specified in: kbps Kilobytes per second mbps Megabytes per second kbit Kilobits per second mbit Megabits per second bps or a bare number Bits per second Amounts of data can be specified in: kb or k Kilobytes mb or m Megabytes mbit Megabits kbit Kilobits b or a bare number Bytes. Lengths of time can be specified in: s, sec or secs Whole seconds ms, msec or msecs Milliseconds us, usec, usecs or a bare number Microseconds. !!TC COMMANDS The following commands are available for qdiscs, classes and filter: add Add a qdisc, class or filter to a node. For all entities, a __parent__ must be passed, either by passing its ID or by attaching directly to the root of a device. When creating a qdisc or a filter, it can be named with the __handle__ parameter. A class is named with the __classid__ parameter. remove A qdisc can be removed by specifying its handle, which may also be 'root'. All subclasses and their leaf qdiscs are automatically deleted, as well as any filters attached to them. change Some entities can be modified 'in place'. Shares the syntax of 'add', with the exception that the handle cannot be changed and neither can the parent. In other words, __change__ cannot move a node. replace Performs a nearly atomic remove/add on an existing node id. If the node does not exist yet it is created. link Only available for qdiscs and performs a replace where the node must exist already. !!HISTORY __tc__ was written by Alexey N. Kuznetsov and added in Linux 2.2. !!SEE ALSO tc-cbq(8), tc-htb(8), tc-sfq(8), tc-red(8), tc-tbf(8), tc-pfifo(8), tc-bfifo(8), tc-pfifo_fast(8), tc-filters(8) !!AUTHOR Manpage maintained by bert hubert (ahu@ds9a.nl) ----
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tc(8)
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tc-sfq(8)
Man8t
tc-cbq(8)
tc-htb(8)
tc-pfifo_fast(8)
ip(8)
tc-bfifo(8)
tc-pbfifo(8)
tc-pfifo(8)
tc-red(8)
tc-tbf(8)
NetworkingUtilities
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