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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] HTB updates class's bstats in one place
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:19:33 +0100
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Changli Gao wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> wrote:
>> The estimators needs
>> this since they're estimating the arrival rate.
>>
>>
> I do not agree with you. TC is only for sending packets. Why does its
> estimator estimating the arrival rate?

I suppose because they were intended for policing.