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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re: netem and hierarchical ingress traffic shaping
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:55:49 -0800
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On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:12:12 -0500
"John A. Sullivan III" <jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com> wrote:

> Since netem appears to be classless, we realized we would need to
> replace the SFQ on each leaf with netem which we really didn't want to
> do - not only to not lose SFQ but because we didn't want to maintain the
> netem parameters on each leaf.  So, we activated our ifb1 interface,
> placed netem on it and redirected all the egress traffic to ifb1.  Taht
> worked fine.

Current versions of netem can take one class.