Subject: Re: multiple Tx queues
To: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-net
Date: 01/10/2004 18:38:42
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 09:55:23AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Here is my proposal in code for associating VLAN tags with hardware
> queues.
>
> OK, but...
>
> % pass out to vlan0 proto ospf
> % pass out to vlan2 tcp port ftp-data
> % pass out to vlan1
>
> Perhaps it would help if you gave a problem statement. Creating
> vlans, giving them different qos treatment, and then using ipfilter to
> direct traffic onto them (if I followed your example) seems odd to me,
> when you could be using CBQ, PRIQ or something else (from ALTQ)
> instead.
Seconded. we already have something to classifie paquets to different
priority queues. Just extend it to handle hardware queues as well.
BTW you may want to check this with the KAME peoples.
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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
NetBSD: 23 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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