From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Suraj Shankar Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:23:25 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] Explanation reqd. for few (more than few!) concepts in TC 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 Hi, --- Damjan wrote: > The qdisc is what actually does the job. Some qdiscs > allw you to define > classes in them, but the kernel doesn't care about > that. The kernel > delivers a packet to the qdisc and it up to it to > decide what to do with > it (classify the packet etc..) IMHO, classification is done by the filter within a classful qdisc; but, I was wondering why call a class inside a qdisc a class, why not call it a sub-qdisc, there must be something more to a class-vs-qdisc. > Since HTB takes bandwidth as parameters, to really > have any effect > you'll have to know how much bandwidth preciselly > you have. Like if you > have 128kbps ISDN, you must set HTB classes so that > cumulative rates of > the classes are not bigger that your real limit. If > not the shapping > will not be correct and precise. okey, so ideally for a bandwidth that varies (by few bytes) cbq is the best available? > Ethernet is not the same as TCP/IP! And TC can shape > other protocols > than IP. okey, this I didn't know :D Spent the day doing, OSI and 802.3! Should have taken Tanenbaum, during graduation seriously. Sorry about this question. Thank you, for all the help. Regards, suraj. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/