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authorPhil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>2016-03-22 15:48:32 +0100
committerStephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>2016-03-27 10:34:40 -0700
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doc/tc-filters.tex: Drop overly subjective paragraphs
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
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\date{January 2016}
\maketitle
-TC, the Traffic Control utility, has been there for a very long time - forever
-in my humble perception. It is still (and has ever been if I'm not mistaken) the
-only tool to configure QoS in Linux.
-
Standard practice when transmitting packets over a medium which may block (due
to congestion, e.g.) is to use a queue which temporarily holds these packets. In
Linux, this queueing approach is where QoS happens: A Queueing Discipline
@@ -496,21 +492,10 @@ kernel itself doesn't.
\section*{Conclusion}
-My personal impression is that although the \cmd{tc} utility is an absolute
-necessity for anyone aiming at doing QoS in Linux professionally, there are way
-too many loose ends and trip wires present in it's environment. Contributing to
-this is the fact, that much of the non-essential functionality is redundantly
-available in netfilter. Another problem which adds weight to the first one is a
-general lack of documentation. Of course, there are many HOWTOs and guides in
-the internet, but since it's often not clear how up to date these are, I prefer
-the usual resources such as man or info pages. Surely nothing one couldn't fix
-in hindsight, but quality certainly suffers if the original author of the code
-does not or can not contribute to that.
-
-All that being said, once the steep learning curve has been mastered, the
-conglomerate of (classful) qdiscs, filters and actions provides a highly
-sophisticated and flexible infrastructure to perform QoS, which plays nicely
-along with routing and firewalling setups.
+Once the steep learning curve has been mastered, the conglomerate of (classful)
+qdiscs, filters and actions provides a highly sophisticated and flexible
+infrastructure to perform QoS, which plays nicely along with routing and
+firewalling setups.
\section*{Further Reading}