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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 02:04:50 +0000
Subject: Re: [LARTC] fairness queing: sfq, etc.
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Hi !

David Koski schrieb:
> 
> The documentation (2.4routing) seems to imply that SFQ balances on a per
> connection basis.  It would seem to be more fair to balance on a source ip basis

SFQ places packets in slots based on a hash function. Then each slot is
dequeud in
a round-robin fashion.

> as that would evenly divide bandwidth among users.  Is this correct?  If so, is
> there an alternative qdisc that would provide the above?

I don't think there is a qdiscs for this but SFQ should be easy to
change.
Changing the hash function to something like iph->saddr %
SFQ_HASH_DIVISOR
should be enough ..

Bye,
Patrick
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