I have an need to make single substream for groups of users and it looks like the PCQ src/dst address mask will do exactly what I need.
My question is if I use an address mask of 28 then each sequencial 14 IP addresses will be grouped into a single substream?
What I’m trying to accomplish is this. I have a situation where 7 people are sharing the cost of a satellite internet connection though some of those people have kids and grandkids who also have their own computers who are freeloaders on the system. What I’m trying to accomplish is each paying customer gets one substream - I’m trying to slice the bandwidth pie into 7 slices if you will. If a paying person wants to put a bunch of freeloaders on then they’ll all get stuck into that paying person’s substream and not get their own substream.
Am I on the right track here about how to accomplish this?
One point I forgot to point out is the network is a /24 (192.168.7.0/24 but I don’t think that matters in this case.\
All the info I’m finding on the internet is that using a /28 yields 14 hosts. Of the 16 addresses the first one isn’t used (it’s the network adress) and the last one is a broadcast address.
Are you saying the /28 applies differently to the PCQ src/dst address mask? Would I be correct in understanding addresses 192.168.7.0-192.168.7.15 would be one substream, 192.168.7.16-192.168.7.31 would be the next and so on?
A /28 yields 16 IPs. If it was a proper /28 network that would be 14 hosts due to there being a network and broadcast address. But you’re not subnetting. You’re just taking a smaller part of a /24, so there are no network and broadcast addresses added. All 16 IPs are usable for hosts since the host netmasks are /24s. The /28 is only used to select traffic.
So the IP example you gave is correct, but it’s not that PCQ is special.
