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Re: IPv6 & QoS in Linux - current state?

To: <kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: IPv6 & QoS in Linux - current state?
From: Pekka Savola <pekkas@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 09:09:09 +0300 (EEST)
Cc: Peter Bieringer <pb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <200110111909.XAA28172@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > >   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.

Hmm, I'm not sure if it's glibc, kernel or both, but some updated
API/advanced API hooks for setting QoS related bits in the datagrams from
the userspace without raw sockets or the like were missing at least some
time ago.

I believe both.

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Pekka Savola                 "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
Netcore Oy                   not those you stumble over and fall"
Systems. Networks. Security.  -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords


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