Manual:Queue

Queues

Submenu level: /queue

Queue implementation in MikroTik RouterOS is based on Hierarchical Token Bucket (HTB). HTB allows to create hierarchical queue structure and determine relations between queues(parent-child, child priority).

In RouterOS it is possible to add queue in 4 different places (HTBs):

• global-in — represents all the input interfaces in general (INGRESS queue). Queues attached to global-in apply to traffic that is received by the router before the packet filtering
• global-out — represents all the output interfaces in general (EGRESS queue).
• global-total —
• <interface name> —

There are two ways how to add queues in RouterOS:

• /queue simple menu - more user-friendly implementation of queues designed to ease configuration of simple,everyday queuing tasks (such as single client upload/download limitation, p2p traffic limitation, etc.).
• /queue tree menu - simplest way to implement advanced queuing tasks (such as global prioritization policy, user group limitations) require market packet flows from /ip firewall mangle facility.

Simple Queues

name

(Text) —

lalala

Flow Identifiers

target-addresses

(comma separated list of IP prefixes) —

dst-address

(IP prefix) —

interface

(Name of interface, or all) —

direction

(One of both, upload, download or none) —

time

() —

p2p

() —

packet-marks

(Comma separated list of) —

HTB Properties

parent

(Name of , or none) —

priority

(1..8) —

queue

(SOMETHING/SOMETHING) —

limit-at

(NUMBER/NUMBER) —

max-limit

(NUMBER/NUMBER) —

burst-limit

(NUMBER/NUMBER) —

burst-threshold

(NUMBER/NUMBER) —

burst-time

(TIME/TIME) —

And corresponding options for global-total HTB queue:

total-queue

() — corresponds to queue only for global-total queue

total-limit-at

() — corresponds to limit-at only for global-total queue

total-max-limit

() — corresponds to max-limit only for global-total queue

total-burst-limit

() — corresponds to burst-limit only for global-total queue

total-burst-threshold

() — corresponds to burst-threshold only for global-total queue

total-burst-time

() — corresponds to burst-time only for global-total queue

Statistics

bytes

(NUMBER/NUMBER; read-only) —

packets

(read-only) —

dropped

(read-only) —

overlimits

(read-only) —

rate

(read-only) —

packet-rate

(read-only) —

queued-packets

(read-only) —

queued-bytes

(read-only) —

lends

(read-only) —

borrows

(read-only) —

pcq-queues

() —

And corresponding options for global-total HTB queue:

total-bytes

(read-only) — corresponds to bytes only for global-total queue

total-packets

(read-only) — corresponds to packets only for global-total queue

total-dropped

(read-only) — corresponds to dropped only for global-total queue

total-overlimits

(read-only) — corresponds to overlimits only for global-total queue

total-rate

(read-only) — corresponds to rate only for global-total queue

total-packet-rate

(read-only) — corresponds to packet-rate only for global-total queue

total-queued-packets

(read-only) — corresponds to queued-packets only for global-total queue

total-queued-bytes

(read-only) — corresponds to queued-bytes only for global-total queue

total-lends

(read-only) — corresponds to lends only for global-total queue

total-borrows

(read-only) — corresponds to borrows only for global-total queue

total-pcq-queues

(read-only) — corresponds to pcq-queues only for global-total queue