[altq 882] Re: Configuration of Altq

[Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>]

--On 20 June 2001 17:31 +0900 Kenjiro Cho <kjc@csl.sony.co.jp> wrote:

> Manuel Forget wrote:
>> I use altq on a bridge to divide a 100Mbits connection, but 1% (1Mb) is
>> not enough small for what I want to do. Can I use floats for the percent
>> ? If not, can I use a smaller bandwidth in the interface and apply a
>> filter to the def_class. Some connection will so pass trough the rules
>> of Altq (the smalles bandwidth) and the other through the entire
>> 100Mbits.
>
> You can use "exactbandwidth" to specify less than 1% in CBQ.
> See altq.conf(5).
>
> But be aware that our CBQ implementation may not have the precision of
> 1/1000.

Didn't this used to cause rounding errors, that resulted in queues 
'jamming' when their allocation was less than 1% (i.e. a fraction, 0.4%)? 
Or has this been fixed now, and I missed it?

Regards,

-Karl Pielorz