[3416] in linux-net channel archive
Re: shaper or whatever
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dennis)
Sat Jun 22 19:40:17 1996
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 19:02:26 -0400
To: "Eric Schenk" <schenk@cs.toronto.edu>
From: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
>Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> writes:
>>You academics really crack me up! :-)
>
>Glad to be of service :-/
>
>>Any why do you call it a "shaper"? whats up with that?
>
>I just borrowed the name used in one of your posts.
>I think bandwidth limiter is more discriptive.
Our name is a bandwidth limiter...I dont know who used the term
"shaper", but it certainly wasnt me!
>
>>I suspect that what you propose above
>>woundnt work well and would have too much overhead. But, it would
>>make a good masters project. Perhaps you will prove me wrong.
>
>I understand from Alan Cox that someone is already writing this for linux.
>We shall see when it arrives.
It is designed as above? The concept is feasible....but the above is
someone leaky in concept.
>
>>It really ain't that difficult, but I cant say any more..(corporate BS, you
>>know).
>
>Sadly. People have to make a living somehow though.
>[Hey, I like free software, I use it almost exclusively, but
> if I can't get what I need for free I'll pay for it.]
Why do you say "Sadly"....some rather sociallistic overtones there...
>
>>Anyone with FreeBSD or BSD/OS can try our demo which will be up
>>next week....it simulates virtually any physical speed (up the the actual
>>physical speed of the media, of course) practically to the byte. It also keeps
>>statisics and reports preformance on a per address or network basis over a
>>user-selectable interval as well as current performance.
>
>Sounds good. Is there any literature you can point at that discusses
>exactly that your stuff accomplishes? If I can ever get FreeBSD to
>boot on my machine I'll check it out. [I've been trying to get
>FreeBSD to boot on and off for a while now. It would be useful
>to be able to do performance comparisions between the FreeBSD
>and Linux TCP implementations
Done. You wont like the results. We dont discuss algorithms and
methods, just features, and how to use it. no docs yet. thats why we
havent released it. Its done. It works. Just no docs.
>
>>Judging from the discussion last week...it seems unlikely that we can port
>>it to linux without violating GPL. Not easily anyway.
>
>I take it then that you need to make modifications to the networking
>internals to make this work?
For ethernet limiting, yes.
Dennis
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