Subject: Re: dummy as IMQ replacement
From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
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To: Hasso Tepper <hasso@estpak.ee>
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On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 09:46, Hasso Tepper wrote:
> jamal wrote:
> > Unfortunately this "index" thing continues to be a big secret although i
> > have pointed it a few times. Bart should probably add it to his HOWTO.
> 
> All this stuff deserves better documentation ;). Call me oldfashioned, but 
> IMHO would be good start to have all keywords at least somewhat documented 
> in iproute2 man pages. I know, writing documentation is boring task etc, 
> but at least you should mention all features in man pages. This gives to 
> someone at least chance to kick you "hey, what's this?" ;).
> 

But 50 emails later noone documented anything .. And every summer
someone tries to write a qdisc to achive this ;->

> This is somewhat related to killing the chance to use iptables as well ... 
> Iptables has better documentation and people use it just because of that.
> 
> Just checked ... "tc action help" in newest iproute2 returns nothing as 
> well :(.

Should work. Are you sure you got the latest one?
Also make sure you compile tc action in the scheduler part of kernel
config.

cheers,
jamal