From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: IMQ patch? Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 18:30:13 +0100 Sender: netfilter-devel-admin@lists.netfilter.org Message-ID: <3FF99F25.1090501@trash.net> References: <200401041020.i04AKYj1011282@freddy.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org Return-path: To: Alan Turner In-Reply-To: <200401041020.i04AKYj1011282@freddy.localdomain> Errors-To: netfilter-devel-admin@lists.netfilter.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org Hi Alan, Alan Turner wrote: >Hi folks > >[Could you CC me on replies? pretty please :)] > >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. > >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. > >This allows the linux kernel to do ingress shaping, which is *very* >useful if you're on a slow link. > >A port of the IMQ device to the 2.6 kernel may be found here: > >http://www.digriz.org.uk/jdg-qos-script/index.html > >The IMQ device homepage is here: > >http://trash.net/~kaber/imq/ > > 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? > > >Thanks muchly for your time. > >Cheers, >Alan > > > > > > >