Re: Status of bandwidth limiter?

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@noris.de)
7 Mar 1997 07:41:54 +0100

In linux.dev.net, article <Pine.LNX.3.95.970217205806.4107A-100000@pc5829.hil.siemens.at>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@pc5829.hil.siemens.at> writes:
>
> it's already in the 2.1 kernel series, it's called the 'bandwith shaper'
> or something similar. From Configure.help:
>
>From Documentation/networking/shaper.txt:

>There is no "borrowing" or "sharing" scheme. This is a simple
>traffic limiter. I'd like to implement Van Jacobson and Sally Floyd's CBQ
>architecture into Linux one day (maybe in 2.1 sometime) and do this with
>style.

I've looked at their code, but to a person like me it's singularly
nonintuitive exactly what they're doing, and I don't have ready access to
their papers. :-(

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