On Monday 02 June 2003 18:41, Cain, Joseph wrote:> I sent this the other day, but I must have misaddressed it since
> this is my first posting to this list.
It arrived fine. But none of the other list members had an answer on your
questions.
> Sorry for the newbie questions.
>
> Bibb Cain
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Cain, Joseph
> > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 5:18 PM
> > To: ''lartc@mailman.ds9a.nl''
> > Cc: Cain, Joseph
> > Subject: pfifo_fast and prio
> >
> > A couple of quick questions about using priority queuing. I am
> > doing experiments with ad hoc routing protocols and I want
> > to ultimately have 3 or 4 classes of traffic. At present I am
> > using the default pfifo_fast queuing discipline on the wireless
> > interface with 3 classes of traffic and with a 100 packet
> > buffer on the interface.
> > 1) Is there a way to allocate a fixed amount of buffer space
> > to each of the 3 bands with pfifo_fast? I suspect not, but I
> > don''t see any documentation on this. My guess is that it is
> > one big block of memory that could be filled by lower
> > priority packets and reject new higher priority packets when full.
> > I think we have encountered congested situations where
> > higher priority traffic may be blocked because the buffer
> > is full of lower priority packets. Will this be true?
> > 2) I want to eventually replace this pfifo_fast queuing discipline
> > with the prio queuing discipline with 4 bands and with defined
> > amounts of buffer space allocated to each band when I understand how
to
> > do it. The examples I have seen in the HOWTO for configuring this seem
to
> > indicate
> > that the prio queuing discipline automatically comes up with 3 bands,
but
> > I didn''t see
> > any examples of tc commands to configure additional bands
> > or allocate buffer to the bands. Is this possible and is there
> > a tc document that provides the necessary commands?
> > Or could you show me the necessary commands?
> >
> > Thanks for the help.
> >
> > Bibb Cain
>
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