[PATCH] 802.1p priority (fixed)

[Brooks Davis]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 08:25:22AM +0500, Boris Kovalenko wrote:
> Brooks Davis wrote:
> >>Because of my little BSD network infrastructure knowledge I hope that 
> >>guru will look at it and point me to the right way :)
> >
> >This lets you create vlans, but I'm not sure what the point is if
> >nothing is done with the priority.  Is it simply that it lets you handle
> >traffic that is tagged this way and that your output packets have
> >priority one on the network?  I'm not sure what the intent of 802.1p
> >priority is.
> Yes, the outgoing packets are tagged with specified priority. Then next 
> device (Cisco Catalyst for example) will assign traffic to different 
> queues according to 802.1p header information. The only thing (IMHO) 
> that may be coded for FreeBSD is to allow PF & IPFW assign packets to 
> ALTQ or DUMMYNET according 802.1p information.

OK, that makes sense.  Hmm, do we actually want to be using seperate
interfaces for this?  I'm sure it's very useful in some applications,
but if the real point is to get packets on the wire with the priority
tags, won't IPFW, PF, or maybe even the application be the best place
for this tagging rather then effectivly using the source address to set
it?  Again, I'm not familiar with the way 802.1p is intended to work, so
this may be a dumb question.

-- Brooks

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