Subject: Re: SO_PRIORITY in Linux = ?? In NetBSD
To: Rick Collette <livewire@netadel.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-perform
Date: 09/27/2002 22:13:46
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 02:03:31PM +0900, Rick Collette wrote:
> Hopefully this is the right place to ask this question(If not, I will
> dutifully take my abuse, and then post this question to the proper forum once
> I figure out which is proper ;) )
> 
> Can someone offer me some pointers to where I might find something equiv. to
> the linux SO_PRIORITY option ? 
> 
> Linux's SO_[whatever] info defines SO_PRIORITY as:
> 
>               Set  the  protocol-defined priority for all packets
>               to be sent on this socket.  Linux uses  this  value
>               to  order  the  networking  queues:  packets with a
>               higher priority may be processed first depending on
>               the selected device queueing discipline. For ip(7),
>               this also sets the IP type-of-service  (TOS)  field
>               for outgoing packets.
> 
> I'm mostly concerned with dynamic changes to the network queue.

This can't be controlled at the socket level on NetBSD. But have a look at
altqd(8), altq.conf(5) and tbrconfig(8). This may do what you want

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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