Re: Confusion about kernelconfig QoS-options

Stef Coene
2002-08-29T16:50:32Z

On Thursday 29 August 2002 18:25, Nils Lichtenfeld
wrote:
> Hi Stef!
>
> Stef Coene schrieb:
> >> Witch of the following options _NEED_ to be enabled? I ask,
because
> >> the goal is to have the kernel as small as possible.
> >
> > Then use modules and load only the modules you need.
>
> That was not my question. The listed items are not selectable as
> modules. They can only be compiled into the kernel or turned off. I list
> them again, they reside in the < QOS and/or fair queueing > section:
>
> [*]   QoS support
Only needed if you want to implement QOS support so other devices on the
network can send requestst for bandwidth.

> [*]     Rate estimator
This can be used for the "Traffic policing" to calculate the rate of
the
packets.

> [*]   Traffic policing
This is sort of tbf-in-filter.  You can configure a filter to only match
packets at a certain rate.

You don''t need these options to use SFQ, HTB, fw and/or u32.


Stef

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