[altq 3] Re: ALTQ future plan

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

Xin,

CCed to the newly-created altq mailing-list.

>> I'd like to know what will be the new function feature 
>> for ALTQ in the near future?
>> In particualr, will ALTQ support differentiated service?
>> (not the preliminary one in the ALTQ package so far)

Porting H-FSC onto ALTQ is my next target.  H-FSC has unique and
theoretically robust features.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~hzhang/HFSC/main.html
I'll be visiting CMU in July to work with Hui Zhang and his group.

I'm also planning to add better diffserv support during the summer,
possibly, EF and AF with 3-color markers.  However, it seems to me
that the diffserv people have not agreed yet upon these implementation 
models.
Therefore, I'd like to ask for opinions and suggestions about what is
required to do diffserv experiments.
This is what the altq mailing-list is for.  I also encourage people to
contribute their test results or experimental code.

Another thing I'd like to do is to play with giga-ethernet and another
ATM driver (FORE LE series and other IDT NICStAR chip based ATM cards).

--Kenjiro