RE: why ALTQ must be supported by interface drivers?

2010-12-22 Thread Ricky Charlet
Hi Aleksej, I happen to have recently been 'playing' with altq and trying to (successfully eventually) get to work well in the 100Mb utilization range. So you need to think of it like this, AltQ is replacing a current queueing system... that of the driver. Each driver has a simp

why ALTQ must be supported by interface drivers?

2010-12-22 Thread Spenst, Aleksej
Hi All, at what network level is ALTQ (QoS) implemented? At the IP level or at the driver level? I would think that all queuing functionality is probabliy working at the IP level and should not depend on underlying interfaces. Is that correct? If this is true, I don't understand why ALTQ must