IMQ patch?

IMQ patch?

[Alan Turner]

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/

Is there any chance of this patch being included in POM, or in the
standard kernel?


Thanks muchly for your time.

Cheers,
Alan





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Re: IMQ patch?

[Patrick McHardy]

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
>
>
>
>
>
>  
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