On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 17:25, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> The only reason TBF has a class is that within current framework
> net/sched framework child qdisc can only be attached to a class.
> So TBF defines a class (there is only one per TBF qdisc, it's
> created automatically and can not be changed) much like sch_prio
> does. The difference is that sch_prio can have up to TCQ_PRIO_BANDS
> children so implementing filters for sch_prio makes sense. TBF has
> one and only one child qdisc. It starts with noop_qdisc from
> sch_generic and later user can change to to something else, like
> original poster did.
>
> Since TBF has only one child no matter what I contend that
> implementing filters for TBF does not make sense, filters should
> be attached either to TBF's child ot to TBF's parent but not to
> TBF itself.
Ok, understood. Why does TBF have only one child?
cheers,
jamal
PS:- Very strange how netdev is not allowing my postings through.
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