Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 25 Jan 2004 23:21:49 +0300 | | From | "Vladimir B. Savkin" <> | | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH] IMQ port to 2.6 |
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On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 02:22:19PM -0500, jamal wrote: > > There has been no real good reason as to why IMQ is needed to begin > with. It may be easy to use and has been highly publized (which is > always a dangerous thing in Linux). > > Maybe lets take a step back and see how people use it. How and why do > you use IMQ? Is this because you couldnt use the ingress qdisc?
Think multiple clients connected via PPP. I want to shape traffic, so ingress is out of question. I want different clients in a same htb class, so using qdisc on each ppp interface is out of question. It seems to me that IMQ is the only way to achieve my goals.
> Note, the abstraction to begin with is in the wrong place - it sure is > an easy and nice looking hack. So is the current ingress qdisc, but we > are laying that to rest with TC extensions. > > ~ :wq With best regards, Vladimir Savkin.
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