I have been working with HTB for around 10months; I've been testing it on
several enviroments and have had a good experience with. I'm Wondering if
if I could use HTB in a more agressive environment; and use some
feautures like layer-5-7 recogniction in order to bring a clever shaping.

Does somebody know if traffic control suplied by Linux could be compared
to the DTS supplied by CISCO; or if we can aim to do a job as dyband or
packeteer do?

Which are the limitations to our shaping system? Can we build a real
commercial solution?

Thanks, for the comments

There exist tasks which cannot be done by more than 10 men or fewer
than 100.
		-- Steele's Law

Randolph Carter wrote:

>I have been working with HTB for around 10months; I've been testing it on
>several enviroments and have had a good experience with. I'm Wondering if
>if I could use HTB in a more agressive environment; and use some
>feautures like layer-5-7 recogniction in order to bring a clever shaping.
>
>Does somebody know if traffic control suplied by Linux could be compared
>to the DTS supplied by CISCO; or if we can aim to do a job as dyband or
>packeteer do?
>
>Which are the limitations to our shaping system? Can we build a real
>commercial solution?
>
>

Packeteer has various patents covering tcp rate control and everything else
they do, including the "idea" to look at upper layers to detect the
type
of traffic.
I live in germany so i don't really care that much about their patents
(they had none
in europe last time i checked). last summer i started implementing tcp
rate control
as qdisc for linux. i haven't worked on it for a couple of month now,
but if anyone wishes
to participate i would be glad to dig out my source again. it is
basically working, the
remaining problems are mostly how to detect and handle interactive traffic.

Patrick

Patrick, I would like to see your code, and see if when can work in such
solution; I'm not sure if the patents in the US cover my country, for I
live in Colombia.

Ask five economists and you'll get five different explanations (six if
one went to Harvard).
		-- Edgar R. Fiedler