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Date:      Mon, 28 Sep 1998 02:57:37 +0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        "Allen Smith" <easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu>
Cc:        ark@eltex.ru, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, kev@lab321.ru, mike@smith.net.au, net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Packet/traffic shapper ? 
Message-ID:  <199809271857.CAA13841@spinner.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 26 Sep 1998 02:07:58 -0400." <9809260207.ZM14494@beatrice.rutgers.edu> 

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"Allen Smith" wrote:
> On Sep 21,  5:52am, ark@eltex.ru (possibly) wrote:
> 
> > ALTQ is damn ugly. I'd prefer to see something like dummynet interacting
> > with IPFilter instead of ipfw.
> 
> Not to get back into the debate regarding ALTQ's "ugliness", the
> primary thing I was looking at ALTQ for was the RED (Random Early
> Detection) capability of ALTQ, so that I can get the lower-priority
> TCP streams to drop back their bandwidth when they're getting too
> much.

I've never seen the ALTQ code or implementation, so I'm commenting in 
ignorance..  Having got that out of the way, it was explained to me the 
importance of being able to apply different 'shaping' procedures to 
different IP protocols.  ie: RED (I was told 'Random Early Drop') for tcp, 
and some other rate limit function for udp.  I'd really love to see an 
implementation that does this, if they don't already.

> 	-Allen

Cheers,
-Peter



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