Hi, --- "Michael T. Babcock" <mbabcock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If I may Stef, a qdisc is short for a Queuing > Discipline. It determines > how a packet leaves itself. A FIFO qdisc is > basically what you have if > you don't use one at all; every packet comes in, > lines up, and spits out > in the same order. > > You can add classifiable queuing disciplines > however. Such a queuing > discipline allows you to add classes to it. Each > class is like a branch > in a tree. When you get to the end of the branch > you have a leaf and > that needs a queuing discipline again. > > Whether it would work or not is one thing, but > technically speaking, you > could add an HTB (classful) qdisc to eth0, then make > a tree of classes > under that. Then some of those could have SFQ or > RED qdisc's attached > to them (the end leaves of the tree) and others > could have another tree > added as HTB or CBQ even (also classful). yes! somebody does think like I do ... but isn't there a valid reason why a class is called a class and a qdisc called a qdisc?!? Thank you. Regards, suraj. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
