Re: IMQ patch?

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Hi Alan,

Alan Turner wrote:

>Hi folks
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>[Could you CC me on replies? pretty please :)]
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>I imagine everyone here is sick of "please include this patch" emails
>from users. My apologies in advance. I've searched around a bit and
>haven't found anything about this - so here goes.
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>The IMQ patch adds a dummy device to which egress queueing/shaping
>disciplines can be attached. Incoming packets may be redirected to the
>IMQ device by adding an entry to the PREROUTING table.
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>This allows the linux kernel to do ingress shaping, which is *very*
>useful if you're on a slow link.
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>A port of the IMQ device to the 2.6 kernel may be found here:
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>http://www.digriz.org.uk/jdg-qos-script/index.html
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>The IMQ device homepage is here:
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>http://trash.net/~kaber/imq/
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The IMQ device is buggy and unmaintained, it really shouldn't be
included anywhere until someone takes maintainership and fixes
the problems.

Best regards,
Patrick

>Is there any chance of this patch being included in POM, or in the
>standard kernel?
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>Thanks muchly for your time.
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>Cheers,
>Alan
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