Managing traffic with ALTQ

  • Authors:
  • Kenjiro Cho

  • Affiliations:
  • Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc., Tokyo, Japan

  • Venue:
  • ATEC '99 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

ALTQ is a package for traffic management. ALTQ includes a queueing framework and several advanced queueing disciplines such as CBQ, RED, WFQ and RIO. ALTQ also supports RSVP and diffserv. ALTQ can be configured in a variety of ways for both research and operation. However, it requires understanding of the technologies to set up things correctly. In this paper, I summarize the design trade-offs, the available technologies and their limitations, and how they can be applied to typical network settings.