[altq 489] Re: Message for altq

[Kenjiro Cho <kjc@csl.sony.co.jp>]

Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > WFQ in ALTQ currently lacks a command to set the queue weight,
> > since I couldn't come up with a good syntax to map a specific flow to
> > the weighted queue.
> 
> in newer versions of dummynet where we have WF2Q+, we do something
> like this using a 3-level process (it took much thinking... it was
> not an easy decision!)

Thanks for the input.

In ALTQ, if you want to assign different bandwidth share to different
type of traffic, CBQ or HFSC is more straightforward to configure.
The advantage of WFQ in ALTQ is that WFQ does not need configuration
but still provides fair share.

-Kenjiro