[ale] Shaping Problem

[Chris Fowler]

On 10/31/2013 05:58 PM, Phil Turmel wrote:
> This script is very odd.  I don't see how it can possibly do what its
> comments claim.  A queuing discipline only shapes traffic that is
> leaving an interface.  Ergo, you can't shape upload and download in the
> same hierarchical token bucket.
>
> In a router between LAN and internet, you can shape download traffic as
> it leaves the router's LAN port, and shape upload traffic as it leaves
> the router's WAN port.  Two separate HTBs on two separate interfaces.

So it is not possible to shape (drop packets as needed) on the inbound 
traffic.  I can do that via the router.   The router in this case is 
upstream and out of my control.  What I could do is put a Linux device 
there with two interfaces and bridge them.  I can then shape the bridge.

Chris