DiffServ support on BusyBox

[Lie Arne]

Bernhard,

Thanks for the info. In the meantime we did a cross-compilation and I
think it is working ok. Have to check further; anyway, thanks again!

/Arne 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer [mailto:rep.dot.nop at gmail.com] 
> Sent: 4. september 2008 15:23
> To: Lie Arne
> Cc: busybox at busybox.net
> Subject: Re: DiffServ support on BusyBox
> 
> On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 01:00:16PM +0200, Lie Arne wrote:
> >Hi,
> > 
> >Since the "tc" (traffic control utility from iproute2) is 
> not part of 
> >the BusyBox distribution, I wonder how I can implement DiffServ 
> >prioritized queueing on our BusyBox embedded system. What we want is 
> >PRIO queuing (3 queues) with TBF (token bucket filter) on the two 
> >highest priorities to avoid best effort starvation (the DSCP 
> marks are 
> >set elsewhere, our BusyBox system acts as a core DiffServ 
> router). So 
> >the questions are:
> >1. is it possible to use existing BusyBox tools to configure 
> PRIO and 
> >TBF queuing?
> >2. If not, are there any obstacles from cross-compiling the iproute2 
> >package for embedded Linux (libraries etc.)?
> 
> see buildroot.uclibc.org
> 
> PS: I've added my current stub of tc(8) to svn. At one point 
> in time, printing worked; Modify/delete will require some refactoring.
>