Re: Problem setting up FireQOS on A-DSL with PPPoE

Hi Costa,
thanks for the second mail, I will try that.
It's great to see there is such good and fast support for FireQOS/Firehol
:) We use firehol on about 10 servers at my company, it's the easiest Linux
firewall ever! :)


2013/11/4 Tsaousis, Costa <[email protected]>

> Hi,
>
> I resubmit my response (I didn't include the list previously).
>
> You cannot use hostnames in FireQOS. It works in layer 3 (just
> network). What you ask is layer 7. The only way to do something like
> that is squid.
>
> I think however, you should not have an issue with big downloads, at
> least if you download just 1 thing at a time. The bandwidth will be
> spread between your download and the web surfing.
>
> Let me also add this: You can benefit a little the new sockets, by
> moving the synacks class, before/above the surfing class. This will
> allow new surfing sockets to be preferred over the packets already
> running. However, the packets carrying data will still be competing
> with each other. The sfq qdisc added by FireQOS will try to balance
> the sockets though. Your big download will not monopolize all the
> bandwidth.
>
> Costa
>
> 2013/11/3 Florian Schröck <[email protected]>:
> > Hello again,
> > with the ifb module it is working now! Is there a way i can classify
> > high-volume HTTP downloads, eg. by the target domain, maybe even with a
> > wildcard - like *.somehost.com?
> > To keep surfing smooth while a big download is running.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> > 2013/11/2 Florian Schröck <[email protected]>
> >>
> >> Hello Costa,
> >> thanks for the fast reply!
> >>
> >> Indeed there is no ifb module. I'm runinng Raspberian, a Debian variant:
> >> Linux raspberrypi 3.6.11 #1 PREEMPT Sat Sep 21 21:12:11 CEST 2013 armv6l
> >> GNU/Linux
> >>
> >> I'm recompiling my kernel with ifb enabled now. This takes a day on the
> >> Raspberry Pi though ;)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 2013/11/2 Tsaousis, Costa <[email protected]>
> >>>
> >>> Hi Florian,
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for trying FireQOS.
> >>>
> >>> It seems that your kernel does not have the IFB module. What distro
> >>> are you using? Which kernel version?
> >>>
> >>> To verify you don't have IFB in kernel, fo this:
> >>>
> >>> # modprobe ifb
> >>>
> >>> does it work?
> >>>
> >>> Without IFB in your kernel, you are limited to use FireQOS for traffic
> >>> control on the output of interfaces only. Copy and paste only the
> >>> output interface to see it working.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >>> 2013/11/2 Florian Schröck <[email protected]>:
> >>> > Hello,
> >>> > I was looking for a traffic shaping solution for my home network and
> i
> >>> > love
> >>> > firehol i stumbled upon fireqos. To get started i just pasted the
> >>> > complete
> >>> > example from the howto and changed the DEVICE=ppp0 and the speeds.
> >>> > ppp0 is my PPPoE device on my raspberry pi from a german DSL
> provider.
> >>> > But
> >>> > at the start i just get the errors below. Can somebody point me in
> the
> >>> > right
> >>> > direction?
> >>> > Thank you!
> >>> >
> >>> > FireQOS $Id: 3bd5794f2e29d2748784acd5d7810d54ba1e99e2 $
> >>> > (C) 2013 Costa Tsaousis, GPL
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > : interface ppp0 world-in input rate 14000kbit adsl local
> >>> > pppoe-llcCannot
> >>> > find device "ppp0-ifb"
> >>> >
> >>> > FAILED: Cannot bring device ppp0-ifb UP.
> >>> > FAILED TO ACTIVATE TRAFFIC CONTROL.
> >>> >
> >>> > Clearing failed interface: world-in (ppp0 input => ppp0-ifb)...
> >>> >
> >>> >          ppp0-ifb: ./fireqos.in: line 334: interface_inout: command
> not
> >>> > found
> >>> > cleared traffic control
> >>> >          ppp0-ifb: removed IFB device
> >>> >
> >>> > No traffic control is operational by FireQOS
> >>> >
> >>> > bye...
> >>> >
> >>> >
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> >>
> >>
> >
>

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