Ok. I understand the queue type and that your uploads are classified with src-address and downloads by dst-address. Whish would be for your local lan and public lan interface. What I am not sure about are target upload, in simple queues the traffic going to the router or from the router? Also if it is the traffic going to your router, then you would have to have two simple queues both using target upload only with a different queue type in order to shape your upload and download traffic.
Any body fined this confusing?
Help would be appreciated.
I did the wiki and every thing, but would like to understand.
Hi Egate
I agree, it could be confusing. I spent a good few hours on it the other day. You have to specify on what interface you’d like the queue to monitor. And remember, if you have a 0.0.0.0/0 monitor on a certain interface, all queues below that one on the same interface will not count anything. My workaround was to create a global queue on the router’s OUT interface monitoring 0.0.0.0/0 and individual queues on the router’s other interfaces only monitoring either certain src ports or certain src addresses.
hope it helps!
Thanks Giepie
This explains a few things. Thanks. Still don’t know though, whether simple queues upload is traffic going towards the router or traffic going from the router.
The simple queue monitors both outgoing and incoming traffic between the router (the interface you choose) and the target address. If you don’t specify an interface, you in some cases find that the incoming and outgoing traffic seems to be the same. That is because the same traffic is counted on more than one interface. (IE, traffic coming in on ether1 wil be counted as RX traffic and traffic exiting on ether2 will be counted as TX traffic, so both RX and TX graphs will look the same).
The only advice I could give you is to play around (not on a live system), generate some traffic from one point to another via a router and adjust the queue settings till you get it right.
G