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tc (traffic control) is the user-space
system administration A system administrator, or sysadmin, or admin is a person who is responsible for the upkeep, configuration, and reliable operation of computer systems, especially multi-user computers, such as servers. The system administrator seeks to ensu ...
utility program used to configure the
Linux kernel packet scheduler A network scheduler, also called packet scheduler, queueing discipline (qdisc) or queueing algorithm, is an arbiter on a node in a packet switching communication network. It manages the sequence of network packets in the transmit and receive q ...
. Tc is usually packaged as part of the iproute2 package.


Syntax

tc filter add dev pppoe-dsl parent 1: prio 1 protocol ip handle 202 fw flowid 1:202


See also

* cgroups


References


External links


Traffic Control HOWTO
Dated but still very relevant HOWTO from the Linux Documentation Project.

More up-to-date HOWTO for advanced networking topics, including traffic control
Linux TC Notes
brief note of various parts of linux traffic control. English is sometimes broken, but the information is still good.
tc: Linux HTTP Outgoing Traffic Shaping
Example use of tc for shaping tcp/80 traffic.
Advanced Traffic Control
ArchLinux wiki entry for traffic control with tc.
tcng
A proposed alternative to the regular tc program, however it appear to have stalled. Linux network-related software Utilities for Linux {{linux-stub