Choosing between portability and innovation

Posted Mar 2, 2011 22:42 UTC (Wed) by brugolsky (guest, #28)
In reply to: Choosing between portability and innovation by mezcalero
Parent article: Choosing between portability and innovation

Yes, and the biggest crying shame is that the networking setup in most distributions make so little use of features (like traffic shaping) that have been available since Linux 2.2 in 1999! [ALT Linux and the /etc/net framework is an exception here.]

Choosing between portability and innovation

Posted Mar 3, 2011 16:39 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (2 responses)

Available... but documented? In English? Anywhere? (lartc.org, I suppose...)

Choosing between portability and innovation

Posted Mar 3, 2011 21:51 UTC (Thu) by xyzzy (guest, #1984) [Link]

I'd have to agree, last time (quite a few years ago) I tried to use the traffic shaping the documentation wasn't much help. The lartc howtos were great as cookbook "do it this way" examples, but if I started from scratch I was unable to write a tc ruleset that worked. That's not-worked as in wouldn't pass any traffic at all.

If there's better documentation now I'd love to know about it.

Choosing between portability and innovation

Posted Mar 4, 2011 16:45 UTC (Fri) by jeremiah (subscriber, #1221) [Link]

LOL..amen. Gotta love the high black arts of Linux network administration. Maybe it's time for O'reilly and Olaf to come out with a revised version of the Linux Network administrator's guide. My version is from 1995.