Re: Bufferbloat

[Mindaugas Rasiukevicius <rmind%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost> wrote:
> ALTQ is too big, too "flexible" (in quotes because without something
> like OpenBSD's pf integrated version, which slows it down even more,
> it is not all that flexible!) and way too slow.  It is demonstration
> code, not something suitable for use on a modern high speed end host
> or router.

I have to agree with this.  The framework was a nice idea, but the code
base got very impractical - to the point where it might be reasonable to
design and implement something more compact (and better documented).

Also, for traffic shaping, I would say Linux-like HTB is a way to go.

> But anything like this means reworking every interface driver in the
> system.  I'd rate it somewhere between "very very unlikely" and
> "never gonna happen".  

Can be done gradually, in steps.

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Mindaugas