On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 12:36:49PM +0200, Adrian Penisoara wrote: > Hi, > > For my diploma exam I will study the state of QoS in today's > networking and further directions and I probably will concentrate on > ALTQ in FreeBSD (as I'm pretty familiar w/ FreeBSD). > > I see that most of today's OSes have a default QoS implementation (at > least Win2000 and OpenBSD come to my mind) and there is a growing need > for QoS integration into the OS. I was wondering what kept FreeBSD from > integrating a QoS implementation (as it did with Kame IPv6) -- for > example what are pro and cons of integration ALTQ in FreeBSD (I saw > there was a thread launched sometime in the beginning of May 2001). I > also saw that ALTQ on FreeBSD seems to be used pretty much even in > production. > > What other QoS implementation alternatives are available for FreeBSD ? > Why didn't FreeBSD follow tracks along OpenBSD's integration of ALTQ ?
You might want to check out the materials on Lucent's ECLIPSE project, which added layer 2 and 3 QoS as well as disk I/O scheduling to FreeBSD 3.x. http://www.bell-labs.com/project/eclipse/release/ BMS To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
