On Sunday 18 August 2002 21:56, Ivo De Decker wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 09:48:09PM +0200, Stef Coene wrote:
> > Normally, each class gets the rate as a minimum. After that, the
> > remaning bandwidth is divided according to the proportions of the rate
> > (more accurate, the quantums) but the classes with the lowest prio will
> > be serverd first. So only remaining bandwidth will be influenced with
> > the prio parameter.
> >
> > And giving a class rate 0 is a strange idea :)
>
> Well, not really:
>
> There might be some sorts of traffic (eg backups) that aren't really
> prioritary. The classes of this traffic could use borrowed bandwith
> exclusively: if there is no other traffic (or not enough to fill the total
> available bandwith), the backups can happen, but if there is other (higher
> priority) traffic, the backups can wait till that traffic lessens (assuming
> this eventually happens, off course).
>
>
> The question is: is this possible?
If you have a total of 100, give backup 1 and the rest 99. As long as there
is no other traffic, backup can get the full bandwidth. But if there is
other traffic, it can use up to 99.
Stef
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