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IP Bandwidth Management

Issue 62

From Issue #62
June 1999

May 31, 1999  By Jamal Hadi Salim
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A look at the new traffic control code in the kernel and how it aids in bandwidth management.
Testing the Setup

In our setup, we have two virtual web servers on a single Linux machine. The setup script (Listing 1) includes some commented sample IP-aliasing examples using the supplied ip utility. The ip utility is feature-loaded and not in the scope of this article. IP addresses 10.0.0.10 and 10.0.0.11 are attached (aliased on) to device eth0 in the example.

To test, use ftp to get to another machine on the network. First, use ftp to get to IP address 10.0.0.10, where you should observe a rate of approximately 1Mbps. Quit that ftp session and start another one to 10.0.0.11, where you should observe a throughput of approximately 3Mbps.

Final Word

These are very exciting times for Linux. As far as I know, Linux is the most sophisticated QoS-enabled OS available today. The closest second is probably BSD's ALTQ, which lags quite a bit behind the sophistication, flexibility and extensibility found in Linux TC. I am not aware of any such functionality in Microsoft products (perhaps someone could provide pointers if they exist). Sun Solaris does have a CBQ and RSVP combo they sell as a separate product. I predict a huge increase in the use of Linux servers as a result of the many features available with TC. Alexey has taken Linux to a new level.

Support for the IETF diffserv features is also in Linux. The work extends the TC to add the most flexible diffserv support known today. Diffserv support was made possible through efforts by Werner Almesberger (who also wrote LILO, Linux-ATM and more) and myself. For more details, see http://lrcwww.epfl.ch/linux-diffserv/.

Acknowledgements

All listings referred to in this article are available by anonymous download in the file ftp.linuxjournal.com/pub/lj/listings/issue62/3369.tgz.

Jamal Hadi Salim (hadi@cyberus.ca) is a hacker wannabe. He spends a fair amount of his spare time staring at Linux networking code. Jamal was the original author of the Sendmail-UUCP HOWTO and is the CASIO digital diary serial driver/application author, which he still maintains. He also has sent the occasional patches to many things, including the kernel, biased towards networking issues. Currently, his efforts are focused mainly in the network scheduling code where he co-authored the Linux diffserv code with Werner Almesberger.

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