HTB Linux queuing discipline manual - user guide

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HTB Linux queuing discipline manual - user guide
Martin Devera aka devik (devik@cdi.cz)
Manual: devik and Don Cohen
PDF Version: Eric Paynter (eric@arcticbears.com)
Last updated: 5.5.2002
New text is in red color. Coloring is removed on new text after 3 months. Currently they depicts HTB3
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?1 . Introduction
?2 . Link sharing
?3 . Sharing hierarchy
?4 . Rate ceiling
?5 . Burst
?6 . Priorizing bandwidth share
?7 . Understanding statistics
?8 . Making, debugging and sending error reports
1. Introduction
HTB is meant as a more understandable, intuitive and faster replacement for the CBQ qdisc in Linux.
Both CBQ and HTB help you to control the use of the outbound bandwidth on a given link. Both allow
you to use one physical link to simulate several slower links and to send different kinds of traffic on
different simulated links. In both cases, you have to specify how to divide the physical link into
simulated links and how to decide which simulated link to use for a given packet to be sent.
This document shows you how to use HTB. Most sections have examples,…