[3453] in linux-net channel archive
Re: shaper or whatever
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dennis)
Mon Jun 24 11:36:45 1996
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 10:29:25 -0400
To: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
From: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
>> Ah. Are you basing it on the firewall code? I want to start to imple=
ment
>> something based on the firewall code. It adds a bandwidth argument t=
o
>> ipfwadm and sets up a bandwidth struct per source/destination specif=
ied.
>
>> Does this concept sound sane? Is this like the thing you are impleme=
nting?
>
>Possibly although my current driver variant looks like this, and I've
>swapped the token bucket for something simpler for the moment.
>
>
>Devices "shaper0...shapern" are configured with shapeconfig something =
like
>this
>
> shapeconfig shaper0 eth0 64000 # shaper 0 bind to eth0, 64K
> route add some.net dev shaper0
One thing that I really dislike about LINUX is that everything seems to=
find
its way into the O/S. One of the biggest problems with developing under
LINUX (and perhaps in maintaining stability?) is that every new "featur=
e"
makes it more difficult to figure out what the heck is going on.
(just my 2=A2)
Dennis
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