Correction on IFB

Posted Jan 12, 2006 11:22 UTC (Thu) by dion (guest, #2764)
Parent article: Looking forward to 2.6.16

It's not "Internet Functional Block", it's "Intermediate Functional Block", it has been described here:

http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/li...

It is by no means obscure for people who'd like to do ingress shaping.

Currently you can only do traffic shaping on egress, that means that if you have a router with 3 internal interfaces then each interface will be shaped separately, so each segment of the network can get a maximum of 1/3 of the available bandwidth, this sucks if there are two leechers on one net and none on the other.

With IFB (or IMQ previously) you can set up a virtual network device between your Internet line and the rest of the network so all the incoming traffic can be shaped together.

Correction on IFB

Posted Jan 12, 2006 13:42 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

Typo fixed, thanks.

The rest is just from the commit message. There's a bit more in the patch itself, but it still doesn't just jump out at relatively slow people (like your editor...)