Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id f9BJonp30736 for netdev-outgoing; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 12:50:49 -0700 Received: from mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (nsd.mandrakesoft.com [216.71.84.35] (may be forged)) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id f9BJokD30723 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 12:50:46 -0700 Received: from localhost (jgarzik@localhost) by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA19941; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 14:50:31 -0500 Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 14:50:31 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeff Garzik To: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru cc: Peter Bieringer , netdev@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: IPv6 & QoS in Linux - current state? In-Reply-To: <200110111909.XAA28172@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-netdev@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Content-Length: 643 Lines: 28 On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote: > Hello! > > > Does anyone know the current state? > > The state is the same as with IP. I.e. "complete". > > > > > any QoS ( Flow label and traffic class) for Ipv6. > > > If yes then in which distribution > > No idea. User level support for diffserv and intserv > may be missing in all the distributions. > > Kernel side is present as soon as distibution distributes kernel. :-) Speaking of QoS, the new RealTek chips support two Tx outgoing queues, one for "normal Tx", and one for "priority Tx". Is there any way to make the priority Tx queue useful to the kernel? Jeff