netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] improve netem reorder flexibility

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Message-ID: <20091218093240.64ca7d88@nehalam>
Date:	Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:32:40 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Christian Samsel <christian.samsel@...h-aachen.de>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...l.org>,
	Christian Samsel <christian.samsel@...h-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] improve netem reorder flexibility

On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:18:37 +0100
Christian Samsel <christian.samsel@...h-aachen.de> wrote:

> This patch adds a new feature to netem: The newly introduced parameter 
> reorderdelay TIME is the time a reordered packet is delayed. It can be used in
> a combination with delay TIME to enable netem to produce late packets, which is
> not possible in the standard netem / iproute2. In the standard version 
> reordered packets are always sent immediately and therefore are always early packets.

I like the idea but is it binary compatible with older kernels/ older iproute2
utilities?



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