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NAME

       fireqos-params-class - optional class parameters

SYNOPSIS

       rate | commit | min speed

       ceil | max speed

       minrate speed

       { qdisc qdisc-name | pfifo|bfifo|sfq|fq_codel|codel|none } [options "qdisc-options"]

       prio { 0..7 | keep | last }

       { linklayer linklayer-name } | { adsl {local|remote} encapsulation } | ethernet | atm

       mtu bytes

       mpu bytes

       tsize size

       overhead bytes

       r2q factor

       burst bytes

       cburst bytes

       quantum bytes

       priority | balanced

DESCRIPTION

       All of the options apply to interface and class statements.

       Units for speeds are defined in fireqos.conf(5).

   rate, commit, min
       When a committed rate of speed is provided to a class, it means that the bandwidth will be
       given to the class when it needs it.  If the class does not need the bandwidth, it will be
       available for any other class to use.

              For interfaces, a rate must be defined.

              For classes the rate defaults to 1/100 of the interface capacity.

ceil, max

       Defines  the  maximum  speed  a class can use.  Even there is available bandwidth, a class
       will not exceed its ceil speed.

       For interfaces, the default is the rate speed of the interface.

       For classes, the defaults is the ceil of the their interfaces.

   minrate
       Defines the default committed speed for all classes not specifically given a rate  in  the
       config file.  It forces a recalculation of tc(8) r2q.

       When minrate is not given, FireQOS assigns a default value of 1/100 of the interface rate.

   qdisc qdisc-name, pfifo, bfifo, sfq, fq_codel, codel, none
       The  qdisc defines the method to distribute class bandwidth to its sockets.  It is applied
       within the class itself and is  useful  in  cases  where  a  class  gets  saturated.   For
       information about these, see the Traffic Control Howto (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Traffic-
       Control-HOWTO/classless-qdiscs.html)

       A qdisc is only useful when applied to a class.  It can  be  specified  at  the  interface
       level in order to set the default for all of the included classes.

       To  pass  options  to  a  qdisc,  you  can specify them through an environment variable or
       explicitly on each class.

       Set the variable FIREQOS_DEFAULT_QDISC_OPTIONS_qdiscname in the config file.  For example,
       for sfq:

              FIREQOS_DEFAULT_QDISC_OPTIONS_sfq="perturb 10 quantum 2000".

       Using  this  variable  each sfq will get these options by default.  You can still override
       this by specifying explicit options for individual qdiscs, for example  to  add  some  sfq
       options you would write:

              class classname sfq options "perturb 10 quantum 2000"

       The options keyword must appear just after the qdisc name.

   prio (class)
              Note

              There is also a match parameter called prio, see fireqos-params-match(5).

       HTB supports 8 priorities, from 0 to 7.  Any number less than 0 will give priority 0.  Any
       number above 7 will give priority 7.

       By default, FireQOS gives the first class priority 0, and increases this number by  1  for
       each  class  it  encounters  in  the  config  file.  If there are more than 8 classes, all
       classes after the 8th will get priority 7.  In balanced mode (see  balanced,  below),  all
       classes will get priority 4 by default.

       FireQOS restarts priorities for each interface and class group.

       The  class  priority defines how the spare bandwidth is spread among the classes.  Classes
       with higher priorities (lower prio) will get all spare bandwidth.  Classes with  the  same
       priority  will  get  a  percentage of the spare bandwidth, proportional to their committed
       rates.

       The keywords keep and last will make a class use the priority of the class  just  above  /
       before  it.   So to make two consecutive classes have the same prio, just add prio keep to
       the second one.

   linklayer linklayer-name, ethernet, atm
       The linklayer can only be given on interfaces.  It is used by the kernel to calculate  the
       overheads in the packets.

   adsl
       adsl is a special linklayer that automatically calculates ATM overheads for the link.

       local is used when the ADSL modem is directly attached to your computer (for example a PCI
       card, or a USB modem).

       remote is used when you have an ADSL router attached to an ethernet port of your computer.

       When one is using PPPoE pass-through, so there is an ethernet ADSL modem (not router)  and
       PPP is running on the Linux host, the option to choose is local.

              Note

              This  special case has not yet been demonstrated for sure.  Experiment a bit and if
              you find out, let us know to update this page.  In practice,  this  parameter  lets
              the kernel know that the packets it sees, have already an ethernet header on them.

       encapsulation can be one of (all the labels on the same line are aliases):

       • IPoA-VC/Mux or ipoa-vcmux or ipoa-vc or ipoa-mux,

       • IPoA-LLC/SNAP or ipoa-llcsnap or ipoa-llc or ipoa-snap

       • Bridged-VC/Mux or bridged-vcmux or bridged-vc or bridged-mux

       • Bridged-LLC/SNAP or bridged-llcsnap or bridged-llc or bridged-snap

       • PPPoA-VC/Mux or pppoa-vcmux or pppoa-vc or pppoa-mux

       • PPPoA-LLC/SNAP or pppoa-llcsnap or pppoa-llc or pppoa-snap

       • PPPoE-VC/Mux or pppoe-vcmux or pppoe-vc or pppoe-mux

       • PPPoE-LLC/SNAP or pppoe-llcsnap or pppoe-llc or pppoe-snap

       If  your  adsl  router can give you the mtu, it would be nice to add an mtu parameter too.
       For detailed info, see here (http://ace-host.stuart.id.au/russell/files/tc/tc-atm/).

   mtu
       Defines the MTU of the interface in bytes.

       FireQOS will query the interface to find its MTU.  You can  overwrite  this  behaviour  by
       giving this parameter to a class or interface.

   mpu
       Defines the MPU of the interface in bytes.

       FireQOS does not set a default value.  You can set your own using this parameter.

   tsize
       FireQOS does not set a default size.  You can set your own using this parameter.

   overhead
       FireQOS automatically calculates the bytes overhead for ADSL.  For all other technologies,
       you can specify the overhead in the config file.

   r2q
       FireQOS calculates the proper r2q factor, so that you  can  control  speeds  in  steps  of
       1/100th of the interface speed (if that is possible).

              Note

              The  HTB manual states that this parameter is ignored when a quantum have been set.
              By default, FireQOS sets quantum to interface MTU, so r2q is probably is ignored by
              the kernel.

   burst
       burst  specifies  the  number of bytes that will be sent at once, at ceiling speed, when a
       class is allowed to send traffic.  It is like a 'traffic unit'.  A  class  is  allowed  to
       send at least burst bytes before trying to serve any other class.

       burst  should never be lower that the interface mtu and class groups and interfaces should
       never have a smaller burst value than their children.  If you do specify  a  higher  burst
       for a child class, its parent may get stuck sometimes (the child will drain the parent).

       By  default,  FireQOS  lets  the kernel decide this parameter, which calculates the lowest
       possible value (the minimum value depends on the rate of the interface and the clock speed
       of the CPU).

       burst  is inherited from interfaces to classes and from group classes to their subclasses.
       FireQOS will not allow you to set a burst at a subclass, higher than its parent.   Setting
       a  burst  of  a  subclass higher than its parent will drain the parent class, which may be
       stuck for up to a minute when this happens.  For this check to work, FireQOS uses just its
       configuration (it does not query the kernel to check how the value specified in the config
       file for a subclass relates to the actual value of its parent).

   cburst
       cburst is like burst, but at hardware speed (not just ceiling speed).

       By default, FireQOS lets the kernel decide this parameter.

       cburst is inherited from interfaces to classes and from group classes to their subclasses.
       FireQOS will not allow you to set a cburst at a subclass, higher to its parent.  Setting a
       cburst of a subclass higher than its parent, will drain the parent  class,  which  may  be
       stuck for up to a minute when this happens.  For this check to work, FireQOS uses just its
       configuration (it does not query the kernel to check how the value specified in the config
       file for a subclass relates to the actual value of its parent).

   quantum
       quantum  specifies  the  number  of  bytes  a class is allowed to send at once, when it is
       borrowing spare bandwidth from other classes.

       By default, FireQOS sets quantum to the interface mtu.

       quantum is  inherited  from  interfaces  to  classes  and  from  group  classes  to  their
       subclasses.

   priority, balanced
       These parameters set the priority mode of the child classes.

       priority
              priority is the default mode, where FireQOS assigns an incremental priority to each
              class.  In this mode, the first class takes prio 0, the second prio 1, etc.  When a
              class  has  a  higher  prio  than  the  others (higher = smaller number), this high
              priority class will get all the spare bandwidth available, when it needs it.  Spare
              bandwidth  will be allocate to lower priority classes only when the higher priority
              ones do not need it.

       balanced
              balanced mode gives prio 4 to all child classes.  When multiple  classes  have  the
              same  prio,  the  spare bandwidth available is spread among them, proportionally to
              their  committed   rate.    The   value   4   can   be   overwritten   by   setting
              FIREQOS_BALANCED_PRIO  at  the  top  of  the  config  file to the prio you want the
              balanced mode to assign for all classes.

       The priority mode can be set in interfaces and class groups.  The effect is the same.  The
       classes  that  are defined as child classes, will get by default the calculated class prio
       based on the priority mode given.

       These options affect only the default prio that will be assigned by FireQOS.  The  default
       is used only if you don't explicitly use a prio parameter on a class.

              Note

              There is also a match parameter called priority, see fireqos-params-match(5).

SEE ALSO

fireqos(1) - FireQOS program

       • fireqos.conf(5) - FireQOS configuration file

       • fireqos-interface(5) - QOS interface definition

       • fireqos-class(5) - QOS class definition

       • FireHOL Website (http://firehol.org/)

       • FireHOL Online PDF Manual (http://firehol.org/firehol-manual.pdf)

       • FireHOL Online HTML Manual (http://firehol.org/manual)

AUTHORS

       FireHOL Team.