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joegoldman
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Prioritising traffic while shaping

Sun Sep 20, 2015 10:24 am

Hi Forum.

Running a wholesale ISP, I have bandwidth pools allocated to my wholesale customers.

What I currently do is create mangle rules for their IP blocks to mark the traffic, and create Simple Queues with the relevant shaping attributes to limit them - this works fine.

What I DO want to do, is start prioritising - have a premium pool of bandwidth that supersedes the others. I tried setting up another queue the same way I usually do and putting its priority at 1 while the others are 8 (under advanced) but it doesn't seem to help all that much. Given that they are separate individual queues my guess is that the prioritising doesn't work for this situation?

So to achieve this, should it be working in my current setup? Or will I need to be moving to a more advanced setup such as Queue Tree's etc?

My ultimate goal is to make dedicated bandwidth higher priority, and 'budget customers' are only allowed to use the leftover.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

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