UML will never work well. The issue is related to the timer effects
in UML. I believe its more of a clock skew and innacuracy than TBF making
assumptions.
cheers,
jamal
On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Gabriel Paues wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I use the TBF filter with good results on my computer. When I set a rate
> with the filter the traffic get shaped accordingly.
>
> I have set up a couple of UML-instances (user-mode-linux) as a network
> to test different QoS strategies. My problem is that the TBF calculates
> the wrong rates. An UML-instance may get interrupted just like any other
> program. Does the timing code in TBF presume that the kernel wont be
> interrupted, and therefore generates the wrong rates?
>
> Ragards,
>
> Gabriel Paues
>
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