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From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
To: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>
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Subject: Re: ipfw, dummynet, weights, and ssh?
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On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 04:00:42PM -0800, Michael Sierchio wrote:
> Jerry Murdock wrote:
> 
> >http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/bsdcon01/dummynet/mgp00020.txt
> 
> Geez, that's the beauty of an example.  It almost seems obvious.
> I vote for either adding it to the (already lengthy) man page,
> or perhaps including in a /usr/share/examples/ipfw/etc.
> 
> One further question:  is it possible to use separate queues of
> the same weight to insure fairness -- i.e. is there a round robin
> approach to queues of equal weight with backlogs?

of course yes. Both for same and different weight.
Ever wondered why this type of scheduling is called Weighted FAIR Queueing ?

Now i understand that the manpage is rather concise on this particular
topic, but turning it into a 40-pages tutorial on traffic management
and scheduling would be equally bad for those just looking at the
command syntax.

	cheers
	luigi

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