On Friday 29 November 2002 13:56, Mathieu Deziel wrote: > All right. What about when no borrowing takes place (classes are not > trying to use more than their base rate)? Is the quantum parameter unused > in this case? Indeed. If a parent has to divide traffic, it will first give a class it's rate. If it's not asking for more, nothing happens. If each class receive the rate and the classes wants more and the parent has some bandwidth left, the remaining bandwidth is divided proportional to the rate. See www.docum.org on the faq page for more information. Stef -- stef.coene@docum.org "Using Linux as bandwidth manager" http://www.docum.org/ #lartc @ irc.oftc.net _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/