Traffic Control - Next Generation 10b review
DownloadTraffic Control - Next Generation (tcng) is a revision of the Linux network traffic control infrastructure that aims to make the conf
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Traffic Control - Next Generation (tcng) is a revision of the Linux network traffic control infrastructure that aims to make the configuration language less cryptic, and provide better interfaces for software and hardware accelerators.
The goal of this project is to revise the network traffic control infrastructure of Linux to overcome shortcomings of the existing architecture, and to make it more extensible.
In particular, we try to resolve the following issues that are present in other similar programs:
Create a more user-friendly configuration language
Provide interfaces for straightforward interaction with network management
Allow seamless integration of hardware accelerators
The code consists of two major components, the traffic control compiler tcng and the traffic control simulator tcsim. Both are described in some more detail below. Since tcng and tcsim share many support files (e.g. the whole regression test system), they are both contained in a single package, called tcng.
This site contains the source code and information directly related to tcng. Pointers to sites with information on traffic control in general can be found in the links section below.
This project started at the beginning of 2001 at EPFL ICA, continued until mid-2002 at Bivio Networks (tm), and has now become one of my spare time activities.
What's New in This Release:
the "mtu" parameter in TBF is now optional
tcsim now uses KVERSION[NUM] instead of KFULLVERSION[NUM] to avoid breaking if EXTRAVERSION contains multiple dots or other surprises (reported by Eduardo Grosclaude)
scripts/runtests.sh now runs commands with LANG=C, to avoid localized error messages (reported by Eduardo Grosclaude)
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