Re: Extension of dummynet/ipfw to support userspace packet classification

2010-09-08 Thread Paul Joe
On 10/8/09, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 12:54:52AM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 12:46:24PM -0700, Joe R wrote: >> > We at ironport have a requirement to do bandwidth management, but the >> > traffic classification (and selection of bandwidth pipes) is done

Re: Extension of dummynet/ipfw to support userspace packet classification

2009-10-07 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 12:54:52AM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 12:46:24PM -0700, Joe R wrote: > > We at ironport have a requirement to do bandwidth management, but the > > traffic classification (and selection of bandwidth pipes) is done in > > userspace. The reason classifi

Re: Extension of dummynet/ipfw to support userspace packet classification

2009-10-07 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 12:46:24PM -0700, Joe R wrote: > We at ironport have a requirement to do bandwidth management, but the > traffic classification (and selection of bandwidth pipes) is done in > userspace. The reason classification is done in userspace is because the > traffic classifications

Re: Extension of dummynet/ipfw to support userspace packet classification

2009-10-07 Thread Julian Elischer
Guy Helmer wrote: Joe R wrote: We at ironport have a requirement to do bandwidth management, but the traffic classification (and selection of bandwidth pipes) is done in userspace. The reason classification is done in userspace is because the traffic classifications are something like streaming

Re: Extension of dummynet/ipfw to support userspace packet classification

2009-10-07 Thread Guy Helmer
Joe R wrote: We at ironport have a requirement to do bandwidth management, but the traffic classification (and selection of bandwidth pipes) is done in userspace. The reason classification is done in userspace is because the traffic classifications are something like streaming audio traffic, vide