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Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 15:12:52 +0200 From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> To: hadi@...erus.ca CC: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] net sched: cleanup and rate limit warning jamal wrote: > On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 13:20 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > >> The tool isn't generating an action (just tc filter ... police ..) >> so it is getting the unfortunate default of reclassify. > > Ah ok. > My advice: you should never ever depend on defaults when you > can be explicit and say "drop". Or have the users in your tool be able > to specify what action to take if rate is exceeded etc (actually i think > juniper does that) > I think "drop" would be the sane default for over-limit - my memory is > hazy because i assumed that was the default but there may have been some > reservations on that default. Patrick? I don't remeber ever discussing that, the choice of "reclassify" as default precedes TC actions and is already present in the oldest iproute2 version I could find (2.2.4-ss000225). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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