From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Talbot Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 13:27:26 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] Re: TC Point & Click + XML MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------070007020109000606000304" Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: To: lartc@vger.kernel.org --------------070007020109000606000304 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. > --------------070007020109000606000304 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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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