[altq 915] Re: Translating Flow Parameters To Quantifiable Unit

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

Kishore Kumar T wrote:
> I am new to traffic/queuing mechanisms. How can I convert different flow
> spec parameters like quality of gaurantee, peak rate, loss sensitivity etc
> to a more intuitive quantity like bandwidth which is what I should ask
> finally to my network card to reserve such resources for the outgoing link.
> Even before that, I want one silly question to be answered. How can an
> application specify its token bucket rate etc. to the traffic control unit.
> (Suppose that I use a G.7ll codec which generates 56 kbps, is it that it's
> TBR = 56kbps???)

Usually, bandwidth is translated to r parameter of the token bucket
based flowspec.

See RFC2210, 2211, 2212 for more details.

-Kenjiro