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From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.pp.ru>
To: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>
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Subject: Re: ipprecedence
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> It seems to me you could use dummynet/ipfw2 to provide a
> stronge PREFERENCE for packets w/non-zero precedence --
> the fairness aspect of dummynet queues works against your
> stated aim,  but probabilistically you could pass all
> such packets ahead of others.  The fairness guarantee
> means that, even if you had a steady stream of non-zero
> precedence packets, some others would be transmitted.

And what bandwidth of pipe should I use?
Note that I do not need traffic shaping,
I need to rearrange queues only.

Eugene

P.S. Please CC: me as I'm not in the list.