Michael Sierchio wrote: > > Eugene Grosbein wrote: > > > Then, if prioritized packed arrives when FIFO is not empty, > > it will not be allowed to go out before packets without ipprecedence > > that are already in FIFO. That's bad. > > That's not quite right. The prioritized packet will presumably be > handled by a different (dummynet) queue, and that queue will have > a higher weight than the other queue (for lower priority traffic).
In addition to dummynet WFQ queue there is interface FIFO queue. Always, even in the absence of dummynet :-) It keeps packets that cannot be transmitted immediately because device is busy. And FIFO, by definition, will not allow prioritized packets to go out before others. Eugene _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
