Re: [LARTC] Re: TC Point & Click + XML

[David Talbot <dtalbot@reallinx.com>]

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This would be wonderful... is it an OS project (And how far along is 
it)? It always seemd to me that things like routing and rate limiting 
rules would be better described by a configuration file than by a series 
of command line commands.

-David Talbot

Michael T. Babcock wrote:

>On 12 Jul 2001 17:41:42 -0500, Nikolai Vladychevski wrote:
>
>>But what I am trying to do is to release it for
>>production where the end users would point & click for filter creation &
>>bandwidth definition, so I think it will be an adventure, but I am
>>accepting the risks... after all.... it's free code....
>>
>
>I've been working on an XML format for describing a traffic control
>configuration in-house.  We're working on a good way to describe the
>rules and its not too hard since most of the settings are hierarchial.
>We've eliminated the need for specifying parents by the inherentness of
>nesting classes under cbq queues and queues under classes, but have a
>few more things to iron out.  I'll be posting what we come up with and
>some code to turn it into TC statements when its more stable unless
>there's outside interest in working on it.
>
>Offering users a point-and-click QoS+TC environment was on our minds
>when we realised that what we needed was a good configuration file
>format to save the settings in.
>



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