On Fri, September 10, 2010 05:51, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > I've been trying to do traffic shaping on one of my public servers and > after reading up, it seems like the way to do so is via tc/htb. > However, most of the documentation seems at least half a decade old > with nothing new recently. > > Furthermore, trying to get documentation on tc filters turned up a > blank. man tc refers to a tc-filters (8) but trying to man that gives > a no such page/section error. Googling on this seems to imply that the > documentation was never created. The author also seems to have stop > updating his blog/company site since 2007 based on the last login date > on netherlabs.nl > > So I'm wondering is tc the current and recommended method for traffic > shaping on CentOS or is there some newer method that has superceded > it? > _______________________________________________ I bought this book a long time ago http://www.amazon.com/Policy-Routing-Using-Linux-Professional/dp/0672320525 I have to say it helped me a lot - even if it is quite antiquated. Unfortunately, online / up to date information and documentation for Linux in general is pretty scarce, particularly distribution-centric documentation. The reason for this is that developers tend to hate documentation and Linux itself is a moving target - documentation needs constant updating. I wonder how many people would pay for good documentation?