Christian Hammers wrote:
>Hi
>
>On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 01:28:56PM +0300, Anton Yurchenko wrote:
>
>
>>How does HTB define burst. What does it consider a burst, I mean how
>>does it destinguish when to allow traffic above rate(ceil), within
>>burst(cburst) values?
>>
>>
>
>>From just reading the docs (not the actual source) I would say that
>"rate" is only the rate in which the bucket is filled with tokens.
>"burst" defines the size of the bucket. I.e. when the bucket is
filled up
>after a pause, you can send out as much packets as the bucket is large as
>fast as you want. The burst therefore starts at a sometimes undefined point
>in time but definetly ends when the bucket is simple empty. Because then,
>the packets have to wait for new tokens which only arrives at the
"rate"
>frequency.
>
>So "burst" defines the endurance of the burst.
>
>(if you want those small-burst-until-the-bucket-is-empty to be not as fast
>as possible but shaped as well then you have to use the maxpeak parameter.
>
>
maxpeak? is that an undocumented HTB param?
>HTH,
>
>-christian-
>
>
>
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Anton Yurchenko<phila@dg.net.ua>
Digital Generation