* Andy <a...@brandwatch.com> [2014-08-05 18:06]: > Correct me if I'm wrong here Henning, but we have always used the approach > of only ever assigning queues to the physical interface (whether it has > VLANs or not), as this means that both the physical interfaces untagged > network, plus all the tagged networks on that interface get to share the > queues.
correct. > Having lots of physical internal interfaces with queues on each simply means > you have to divide our total WAN download bandwidth across the interfaces as > they cannot borrow from each other. obviously, cross-interface borrowing doesn't work indeed :) > But if you use VLANS and place the queues on the physical interface, if the > public WIFI VLAN for example is not using any bandwidth, the internal LAN > can use all the bandwidth until the public WIFI wants some. yup > Considering all this, there should never be a good reason to apply queues to > the VLAN interfaces at all? I can't see any. There's always an interface (or a stack of interfaces even) with a queue underneath, so THAT is the point to do the queueing. -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org BS Web Services GmbH, http://bsws.de, Full-Service ISP Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS. Virtual & Dedicated Servers, Root to Fully Managed Henning Brauer Consulting, http://henningbrauer.com/
