Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] IMQ port to 2.6

From: "Vladimir B. Savkin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 23:21:49 +0300

On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 02:22:19PM -0500, jamal wrote:
> 
> There has been no real good reason as to why IMQ is needed to begin
> with. It may be easy to use and has been highly publized (which is
> always a dangerous thing in Linux).
> 
> Maybe lets take a step back and see how people use it. How and why do
> you use IMQ? Is this because you couldnt use the ingress qdisc?

Think multiple clients connected via PPP. I want to shape traffic,
so ingress is out of question. I want different clients in a same
htb class, so using qdisc on each ppp interface is out of
question. It seems to me that IMQ is the only way to achieve my goals.

> Note, the abstraction to begin with is in the wrong place - it sure is
> an easy and nice looking hack. So is the current ingress qdisc, but we
> are laying that to rest with TC extensions.
> 
> 
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:wq
                                        With best regards, 
                                           Vladimir Savkin.