From owner-cvs-all Sat Sep 4 13: 5:51 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F249150A8; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 13:05:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA05238; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 16:05:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 16:05:08 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Brian Somers Cc: Brian Somers , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/ppp bundle.c cbcp.c chap.c command.c fsm.c hdlc.h ip.c ipcp.c ipcp.h link.c link.h lqr.c mp.c pap.c ppp.8 In-Reply-To: <199909040958.KAA69820@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Brian Somers wrote: > > Why not use the IP TOS field? > > Packets already go into the priority queue if ip_tos is > IPTOS_LOWDELAY. In fact, I'm considering making 4 queues so that > having a priority port and IPTOS_LOWDELAY prioritises the packet over > packets that have only one of these characteristics. I realize that all the traffic that you've classified as priority probably doesn't have any TOS bits set. I see a small extension to IPFW as the solution here. It makes setup a little more involved but it reduces the amount of specialized code in ppp. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message