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Le mercredi 13 octobre 2010 =C3=A0 23:36 -0400, Bill Fink a =C3=A9crit =
:

> I was just trying to do an 8 Gbps rate limit on a 10-GigE path,
> and couldn't get it to work with either htb or tbf.  Are you
> saying this currently isn't possible?  Or are you saying to use
> this hfsc mechanism, which there doesn't seem to be a man page
> for?

man pages ? Oh well...

8Gbps rate limit sounds very optimistic with a central lock and one
queue...

Maybe its possible to split this into 8 x 1Gbps, using 8 queues...
or 16 x 500 Mbps