From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anton Yurchenko Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 11:00:40 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] definition of burst Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org Christian Hammers wrote: >Hi > >On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 01:28:56PM +0300, Anton Yurchenko wrote: > > >>How does HTB define burst. What does it consider a burst, I mean how >>does it destinguish when to allow traffic above rate(ceil), within >>burst(cburst) values? >> >> > >>>From just reading the docs (not the actual source) I would say that >"rate" is only the rate in which the bucket is filled with tokens. >"burst" defines the size of the bucket. I.e. when the bucket is filled up >after a pause, you can send out as much packets as the bucket is large as >fast as you want. The burst therefore starts at a sometimes undefined point >in time but definetly ends when the bucket is simple empty. Because then, >the packets have to wait for new tokens which only arrives at the "rate" >frequency. > >So "burst" defines the endurance of the burst. > >(if you want those small-burst-until-the-bucket-is-empty to be not as fast >as possible but shaped as well then you have to use the maxpeak parameter. > > maxpeak? is that an undocumented HTB param? >HTH, > >-christian- > > > -- Anton Yurchenko Digital Generation _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/