[LARTC] shaping by packet count rather than bytes ?

Jens Thiele karme at berlios.de
Fri Oct 5 20:56:10 CEST 2007


On  5 Okt 2007, david_list at boreham.org wrote:

> In wireless networks it can be handy to shape by packet rate
> rather than bytes/s (because capacity is packet-rate-limited).
>
> Has anyone done any work on packet-rate shaping ?

Don't know any wireless details. But I guess in the end it is very
similar to the ATM fixed cell size.
Maybe the tcatm patch [1] might give some hints.

Greetings
Jens

[1] http://ace-host.stuart.id.au/russell/files/tc/tc-atm/


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