Traffic shaping
Traffic shaping
Posted Mar 27, 2009 23:37 UTC (Fri) by rmayr (subscriber, #16880)In reply to: Traffic shaping by kaber
Parent article: Nftables: a new packet filtering engine
And please, please, *please* hook into ingress shaping as well. Yes, IMQ had bad code
quality, but it was understandable from a user point of view. IFB isn't and it doesn't work in
many cases important in practical scenarios. I have been dealing with ingress shaping for
the past 2 years and managed to get many Linux gateways deployed because of the
flexibility that combining netfilter marks with IMQ gave me. IFB so far doesn't seem to be a
capable replacement, and IMQ is broken with >= 2.6.27.
quality, but it was understandable from a user point of view. IFB isn't and it doesn't work in
many cases important in practical scenarios. I have been dealing with ingress shaping for
the past 2 years and managed to get many Linux gateways deployed because of the
flexibility that combining netfilter marks with IMQ gave me. IFB so far doesn't seem to be a
capable replacement, and IMQ is broken with >= 2.6.27.
Traffic shaping is becoming more important by the month. It's time to let it become
manageable under Linux.