From owner-freebsd-isp Sat May 16 08:45:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA29605 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Sat, 16 May 1998 08:45:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA29570; Sat, 16 May 1998 08:45:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Received: from dbsys (dbsys.etinc.com [207.252.1.18]) by etinc.com (8.8.7/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA19755; Sat, 16 May 1998 11:54:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199805161554.LAA19755@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 11:53:06 -0400 To: Julian Elischer , Luigi Rizzo From: Dennis Subject: Re: Bandwidth limiter available Cc: Mike Smith , andre@pipeline.ch, manar@ivision.co.uk, isp@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <199805150331.FAA01765@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 12:34 AM 5/15/98 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: >> >> > If you want to hear more about ALTQ, Cho Kenjiro will be talking about it >> > at USENIX this year. We hope also to hear from Ito Jun-ichiro about >> >> and just for the records, I have a paper at the FreeNIX track on >> dummynet and related networking stuff. > >And I may give a WIPS session on >Whistle's "smart bandwidth" Very fancy. Not what most isps are looking for, but useful. One question: why were the hooks put in the drivers rather than at a higher , more generic level. The process does not have to be as intrusive as ALTQ seems to be. Sounds like an ongoing maintenence nightmare. dennis Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com ISA and PCI Sync Cards for FreeBSD, LINUX and BSD/OS Bandwidth Manager http://www.etinc.com/bwmgr.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message