[altq 747] Re: marking packets at a Cisco router

[Kenjiro Cho <kjc@csl.sony.co.jp>]

Hoomaan Naimi wrote:
> I use CBQ on a FreeBSD 4.1 machine as my central BW control machine and I
> want to control the bandwidth of different customers coming to my network
> from serial interfaces of a Cisco router. They use a wide range of IP
> addresses and I want to see is there a method to mark packets coming from
> different serial interfaces of Cisco router and then apply packets with an
> specific mark to an specific cbq class?

I don't know much about Cisco routers but the latest IOS (12?) should
support diffserv and be capable of marking DSCP (DiffServ Code Points).

Then, you can mark packets at the Cisco router and make ALTQ to
control traffic classified by DSCP, if packet marking is an acceptable
approach.

-Kenjiro