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NAME

       tcdevices - Shorewall Traffic Shaping Devices file

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/shorewall/tcdevices

DESCRIPTION

       Entries in this file define the bandwidth for interfaces on which you
       want traffic shaping to be enabled.

       If you do not plan to use traffic shaping for a device, don't put it in
       here as it limits the throughput of that device to the limits you set
       here.

       A note on the bandwidth definitions used in this file:

       ·   don't use a space between the integer value and the unit: 30kbit is
           valid while 30 kbit is not.

       ·   you can use one of the following units:

           kbps
               Kilobytes per second.

           mbps
               Megabytes per second.

           kbit
               Kilobits per second.

           mbit
               Megabits per second.

           bps or number
               Bytes per second.

       ·   Only whole integers are allowed.

       The columns in the file are as follows.

       INTERFACE - [number:]interface
           Name of interface. Each interface may be listed only once in this
           file. You may NOT specify the name of an alias (e.g., eth0:0) here;
           see http://www.shorewall.net/FAQ.htm#faq18

           You may NOT specify wildcards here, e.g. if you have multiple ppp
           interfaces, you need to put them all in here!

           If the device doesn't exist, a warning message will be issued
           during "shorewall [re]start" and "shorewall refresh" and traffic
           shaping configuration will be skipped for that device.

           Shorewall assigns a sequential interface number to each interface
           (the first entry in the file is interface 1, the second is
           interface 2 and so on) You can explicitly specify the interface
           number by prefixing the interface name with the number and a colon
           (":"). Example: 1:eth0.

       IN-BANDWIDTH - bandwidth
           The incoming bandwidth of that interface. Please note that you are
           not able to do traffic shaping on incoming traffic, as the traffic
           is already received before you could do so. But this allows you to
           define the maximum traffic allowed for this interface in total, if
           the rate is exceeded, the packets are dropped. You want this mainly
           if you have a DSL or Cable connection to avoid queuing at your
           providers side.

           If you don't want any traffic to be dropped, set this to a value to
           zero in which case Shorewall will not create an ingress qdisc.Must
           be set to zero if the REDIRECTED INTERFACES column is non-empty.

       OUT-BANDWIDTH - bandwidth
           The outgoing bandwidth of that interface. This is the maximum speed
           your connection can handle. It is also the speed you can refer as
           "full" if you define the tc classes in shorewall-tcclasses[1](5).
           Outgoing traffic above this rate will be dropped.

       OPTIONS - {-|{classify|hfsc} ,...}
           classify — When specified, Shorewall will not generate tc or
           Netfilter rules to classify traffic based on packet marks. You must
           do all classification using CLASSIFY rules in
           shorewall-tcrules[2](5).

           hfsc - Shorewall normally uses the Hierarchical Token Bucket
           queuing discipline. When hfsc is specified, the Hierarchical Fair
           Service Curves discipline is used instead.

       REDIRECTED INTERFACES - [interface[,interface]...]
           May only be specified if the interface in the INTERFACE column is
           an Intermediate Frame Block (IFB) device. Causes packets that enter
           each listed interface to be passed through the egress filters
           defined for this device, thus providing a form of incoming traffic
           shaping. When this column is non-empty, the classify option is
           assumed.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1:
           Suppose you are using PPP over Ethernet (DSL) and ppp0 is the
           interface for this. The device has an outgoing bandwidth of 500kbit
           and an incoming bandwidth of 6000kbit

                       #INTERFACE   IN-BANDWIDTH    OUT-BANDWIDTH         OPTIONS         REDIRECTED
                       #                                                                  INTERFACES
                       1:ppp0         6000kbit        500kbit

FILES

       /etc/shorewall/tcdevices

SEE ALSO

       http://shorewall.net/traffic_shaping.htm

       shorewall(8), shorewall-accounting(5), shorewall-actions(5),
       shorewall-blacklist(5), shorewall-hosts(5), shorewall-interfaces(5),
       shorewall-ipsec(5), shorewall-maclist(5), shorewall-masq(5),
       shorewall-nat(5), shorewall-netmap(5), shorewall-params(5),
       shorewall-policy(5), shorewall-providers(5), shorewall-proxyarp(5),
       shorewall-route_rules(5), shorewall-routestopped(5),
       shorewall-rules(5), shorewall.conf(5), shorewall-tcclasses(5),
       shorewall-tcrules(5), shorewall-tos(5), shorewall-tunnels(5),
       shorewall-zones(5)

NOTES

        1. shorewall-tcclasses
           http://www.shorewall.net/manpages/shorewall-tcclasses.html

        2. shorewall-tcrules
           http://www.shorewall.net/manpages/shorewall-tcrules.html

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