From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 10:08:30 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] How far can TC go? 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 Randolph Carter wrote: >I have been working with HTB for around 10months; I've been testing it on >several enviroments and have had a good experience with. I'm Wondering if >if I could use HTB in a more agressive environment; and use some >feautures like layer-5-7 recogniction in order to bring a clever shaping. > >Does somebody know if traffic control suplied by Linux could be compared >to the DTS supplied by CISCO; or if we can aim to do a job as dyband or >packeteer do? > >Which are the limitations to our shaping system? Can we build a real >commercial solution? > > Packeteer has various patents covering tcp rate control and everything else they do, including the "idea" to look at upper layers to detect the type of traffic. I live in germany so i don't really care that much about their patents (they had none in europe last time i checked). last summer i started implementing tcp rate control as qdisc for linux. i haven't worked on it for a couple of month now, but if anyone wishes to participate i would be glad to dig out my source again. it is basically working, the remaining problems are mostly how to detect and handle interactive traffic. Patrick _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/