[altq 990] Re: question regarding filter deletion

["Kei Kato" <katou235@oki.co.jp>]

> supported by the command parser for a historical reason. (a filter
> used to have no name so that it couldn't be specified by a command ).

Well, now filter name can be specified by the "filter " command
so that some users might want to delete specific filter and I'm one of
them.

-KK

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenjiro Cho [mailto:kjc@csl.sony.co.jp]
> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 8:38 PM
> To: katou235@oki.co.jp
> Cc: altq@csl.sony.co.jp
> Subject: Re: [altq 949] question regarding filter deletion
>
>
>
> Kei Kato wrote:
> > It seems to me that deleting one specific filter is impossible in ALTQ
> > ver3.0,
> > although parser.c accepts commands such as " delete pvc0 classA filter1"
> > , resulting in deleting classA and all filters attached to it.
> >
> > any comment on this?
>
> The "delete" command deletes a class, and there's no command for
> deleting only a filter.
> Although there is an API for that (qcmd_delete_filter()), it is not
> supported by the command parser for a historical reason. (a filter
> used to have no name so that it couldn't be specified by a command ).
>
> Do you have a compelling reason to delete only a filter?
>
> -Kenjiro