Re: network nicety

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 9 Oct 1998 17:26:13 +0100 (BST)

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> TOS bit tweaking only works when used in conjunction with a
> priority-queueing system. Since PPP is designed for use with multiple
> protocols, I doubt it implements IP priority queues. I know that some
> SLIP drivers do it, but I don't know if Linux supports it at all.

This is Linux, we priority queue on any protocol. I've run priority queueing
IPX quite happily

> So I guess the question is does Linux support IP priority queues
> and how hard would it be to write/port them to a PPP/IP priority queue
> module or such (similar to the compression modules)

Linux supports queue priorities settable at the application level for
every protocol. The magic TOS rewriting stuff is in the firewall which is
IPonly

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