Why not qos for downloading stream??

[Beat Meier]

HI there

Simple question :-)
Why there is always only qos examples for upload and not download stream
of adsl?
I have a linux router which shares 5 wireless "customers" my neighbours
and me to
one adsl link 512kbps download 128kbps upload ...
Now does it make sense to do qos on the linux router for download for us?
Say if someone is using ssh from outside ...
So I tried to apply the example 15.10 of Cookbook of the lartc howto on
the linux router ...
I have for every neighbour a class which limits its traffic to 128kbps
and below that
I addedd the whole tree of example 15.10 on the router ...
Or does it make more sense this to do on the ap with ingress? I have a
full linux
ap router for each neighbour.

Now comes the filtering and I was wondering if there
1. makes sense i.e. it helps us if download speed is at limit to
priorize ssh, voip etc.
2. what will be the cpu load if you have not only 5 connected clients if
not say 30
and a lot of filter rules i.e. each customer needs his full filter set ...

Has anybody such a thing in production or is it "useless"?

Greetings

Beat

[Andreas Mueller]

Hi,

Post by Beat Meier
HI there
Simple question :-)
Why there is always only qos examples for upload and not download stream of
adsl?

The packages are allready on your router, so why slowing down the
routing? You cannot hinder anyone to send you data but you can control
the questioning for more incoming traffic. (the case here is a "slow"
internet connection)

[...]

Post by Beat Meier
Now comes the filtering and I was wondering if there
1. makes sense i.e. it helps us if download speed is at limit to priorize
ssh, voip etc.
2. what will be the cpu load if you have not only 5 connected clients if
not say 30
and a lot of filter rules i.e. each customer needs his full filter set ...

[...]
That's how I would argue on the other questions with a "no".
(Btw., afaik the traffic of 5 or 30 people would not fully load a 200MHz
mipsel router on this line, but effectively shaping for low latency
(voip) could be hard to deal with on that line).

Bye, Andreas.

[Mohan Sundaram]

Post by Beat Meier
HI there
Simple question :-)
Why there is always only qos examples for upload and not download stream
of adsl?

QoS works on packet queuing at the interface level. We can only queue
what we send out or police/ rate limit what you receive. On edge
devices, normally, a incoming stream on one interface translates to one
or more outgoing streams on other interfaces. Thus applying QoS on an
egress interface is equivalent to doing QoS on the ingress interface.
TCP/IP slows down automatically when some congestions occur. The above
does not hold true for UDP/ICMP and that is why these are commonly rate
limited at ingress.

Post by Beat Meier
I have a linux router which shares 5 wireless "customers" my neighbours
and me to
one adsl link 512kbps download 128kbps upload ...
Now does it make sense to do qos on the linux router for download for us?
Say if someone is using ssh from outside ...
So I tried to apply the example 15.10 of Cookbook of the lartc howto on
the linux router ...
I have for every neighbour a class which limits its traffic to 128kbps
and below that
I addedd the whole tree of example 15.10 on the router ...
Or does it make more sense this to do on the ap with ingress? I have a
full linux
ap router for each neighbour.

Shape outgoing traffic on the interface that faces each customer.

Mohan