From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Russell Strong <russell@strong.id.au>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: amplifying qdisc
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 23:26:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200708232634.0fa0ca19@hermes.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200709161034.71bf8e09@strong.id.au>
On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 16:10:34 +1000
Russell Strong <russell@strong.id.au> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm attempting to fill a link with background traffic that is sent
> whenever the link is idle. To do this I've creates a qdisc that will
> repeat the last packet in the queue for a defined number of times
> (possibly infinite in the future). I am able to control the contents of
> the fill traffic by sending the occasional packet through this qdisc.
>
> This is works as the root qdisc and below a TBF. When I try it as a
> leaf of HTB unexpected behaviour ensues. I suspect my approach is
> violating some rules for qdiscs? Any help/ideas/pointers would be
> appreciated.
Netem can already do things like this. Why not add to that
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-09 6:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-09 6:10 amplifying qdisc Russell Strong
2020-07-09 6:26 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2020-07-12 1:40 ` Russell Strong
2020-07-13 16:52 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-07-20 1:39 ` Russell Strong
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