From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 21 14:20:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA09992 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 14:20:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [207.153.65.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA09974 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 14:20:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA28795; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 17:19:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 17:19:48 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Luigi Rizzo cc: ark@eltex.ru, oppermann@pipeline.ch, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, ipfilter@postbox.anu.edu.au Subject: Re: Packet/traffic shapper ? In-Reply-To: <199809211924.VAA02879@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > no, this is not true, but just because dummynet does a different -- > easier, in a sense -- thing. The reason why you saw dummynet coming in > together with device driver patches is that at the same time i also > added support for bridging, and that _did_ require working at the > device driver (actually, it might have been done in ether_input() but > with some loss of efficiency, and since there efficiency is critical i > thought it was better to go as low as reasonably possible). Ah! I remember now. :) You are correct. I had not intended to lump your code with ALTQ the way I did. :) -- | Matthew N. Dodd |This space | '78 Datsun 280Z | FreeBSD/NetBSD/Sprite/VMS | | winter@jurai.net |is for rent| '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,m68k,pmax,vax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | Are you k-rad elite enough for my webpage? | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message