[altq:1699] Re: altq config

[Nicolas Christin <nicolas@cs.Virginia.EDU>]

On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Loryan Strant wrote:

> Between the hours of midnight at 9am, I want a specific host on my LAN
> to have access to 100% of the link. However outside of those hours, I
> want it to only use a maximum of 75% of the link speed (total of 27k/s).
> Apart from that all other hosts can use whatever part of the pipe they
> can get.
>  
> Does anyone have a config example or something similar that I can work
> off?

There is no way of specifying different times of operation in altq.
(Could be an interesting add-on, but I am not sure about the overhead
involved. I'd rather see online removal/addition of filters work first
;-) As for your problem, I suggest you play with cron(1) to switch back
and forth between configuration files. You will have to have a master
script called from cron that:

- shutdowns the current instance of the altq daemon
- restarts altqd with the appropriate config file

Nothing that sounds too complicated, though. As for the specific config
files you'll need to use, I refer you to the documentation, or the man
page altq.conf(4) - your setup is very simple and you can pretty much
have the examples given in the documentation work out of the box. (With
CBQ.)

Best,
-- 
Nicolas Christin                     
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Virginia, Computer Science
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~nicolas