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2016-03-11
| Revision History | ||
|---|---|---|
| Revision 1.1.0 | 2016-01-30 | MAB |
| Incorporate new qdisc description sections written by Federico Bollelli and Natale Patriciello | ||
| Revision 1.0.2 | 2006-10-28 | MAB |
| Add references to HFSC, alter author email addresses | ||
| Revision 1.0.1 | 2003-11-17 | MAB |
| Added link to Leonardo Balliache's documentation | ||
| Revision 1.0 | 2003-09-24 | MAB |
| reviewed and approved by TLDP | ||
| Revision 0.7 | 2003-09-14 | MAB |
| incremental revisions, proofreading, ready for TLDP | ||
| Revision 0.6 | 2003-09-09 | MAB |
| minor editing, corrections from Stef Coene | ||
| Revision 0.5 | 2003-09-01 | MAB |
| HTB section mostly complete, more diagrams, LARTC pre-release | ||
| Revision 0.4 | 2003-08-30 | MAB |
| added diagram | ||
| Revision 0.3 | 2003-08-29 | MAB |
| substantial completion of classless, software, rules, elements and components sections | ||
| Revision 0.2 | 2003-08-23 | MAB |
| major work on overview, elements, components and software sections | ||
| Revision 0.1 | 2003-08-15 | MAB |
| initial revision (outline complete) | ||
Abstract
Traffic control encompasses the sets of mechanisms and operations by which packets are queued for transmission/reception on a network interface. The operations include enqueuing, policing, classifying, scheduling, shaping and dropping. This HOWTO provides an introduction and overview of the capabilities and implementation of traffic control under Linux.
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