From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Frank v Waveren Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 03:39:46 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] a simple setup with tbf and prio? 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 On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 09:56:19PM -0500, Martin A. Brown wrote: > Hmmmm.....clearly I must have failed to explain something. > [snip] > TBF, as a classless qdisc, can only be a terminal qdisc. That makes it > far less complex than CBQ, which can support an arbitrary number of nested > classes. Yes ok, I got that bit. I was merely wondering why TBF wasn't made classful, like HTB is. Is there a fundamental reason why you couldn't have a TBF that's classful? > And one other note--it sounds like you want to use "tc filter" commands to > prioritize ACKs and other interactive traffic. In order to use "tc > filter" commands (classification), you need to have separate classes into > which to classify your traffic. TBF provides no classes, so you can't > classify! That's why I wanted to add a prio qdisc under it. -- Frank v Waveren Fingerprint: 21A7 C7F3 fvw@[var.cx|stack.nl|chello.nl] ICQ#10074100 1FF3 47FF 545C CB53 Public key: hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net/fvw@var.cx 7BD9 09C0 3AC1 6DF2 _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/