[LARTC] HFSC and default qdisc backlog

[Jason Boxman]

On Wednesday 22 March 2006 19:13, James Nelson wrote:
> Thanks for all of your help Patrick!
>
> Just so I'm clear.  If hfsc at the class level shows no overlimits and no
> packet dropps, then hfsc is not effecting my traffic any different (from a
> throughput perspective computational computer slowness aside) then if i had
> no traffic shapping in place?

Well, surely if you're not delaying or dropping any traffic on your side of 
the pipe, you're either using less bandwidth than you have or you've 
overstated the true size of your upstream link.  In either case, no shaping 
can occur as ordering packets has little effect if there's no bottleneck.

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