[altq 703] Re: ALTQ inbound processing

[Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU>]

> Lars Eggert wrote:
>> I think somewhere in the ALTQ docs it's mentioned that altq only deals with
>> outbound processing. Has anyone patched ALTQ to support inbound processing
>> as well? (Otherwise, I may look into it; I need it for a research project.)
> 
> ALTQ doesn't support queueing disciplines on the input path but
> diffserv-style traffic conditioning is supported.

You mean dropping packets that fall outside certain specified service level
limits? (Sorry, I'm not too familiar with diffserv terminology.)

If so, that's unfortunately not fine-grained enough for what I'm looking
into. Is there anything fundamental that would prohibit ALTQ from working on
the inbound queue? I've looked into is a little bit, and it seems to be a
straightforward extension (basically, ALTQify ipintrq). If that's the case,
I'll start working on it soon...

Lars
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Lars Eggert <larse@isi.edu>                   Information Sciences Institute
http://www.isi.edu/larse/                  University of Southern California