I’m trying to do a Simple Queue for Winbox/SSH Access to my device. Can someone show me the way on this?
I’ve attempted to add a queue for the destination address - but it doesn’t receive any traffic.
I’ve set up a simple queue on a head end router as such:
/queue simple
add dst=e12 limit-at=10M/10M max-limit=15M/15M name=test_10.3.2.6 target=10.3.2.6/32
When I look at the queue traffic, I don’t see any packets back and forth within the queue. Additionally, when I torch the interface e12, I see overall traffic to/from that target ip address - but again, it’s like the queue isn’t picking it up?
I’ve fixed this with packet marking out of Mangle. It appears that I cannot target an IP address that sits on the interface for simple queues, however I was able to create a rule to look for packet marking and specify the interface - and now I’m seeing traffic counters go up.
Unfortunately there is no real documentation for Simple Queue. I asked for it before but it appears low-priority.
Why don’t you use Queue Tree? You can use packet marks to mark the interesting traffic.
I can use Queue Tree - was just trying to play to get something quick in, and “simple” seemed like it would be simple lol
I’ve got the markings working for now with Simple Queue - and that’s honestly good enough; the remote site only has one management IP address on the wire aside from the prod traffic, so building out 2 queues - one for MGMT and the other for everything else works out fine in my book.
It isn’t even defined what Simple Queue is doing. The documentation just proposes a trivial use case that uses a few of its many parameters.