Re: network stack rate shaping queues

(Please always CC netdev for networking questions.)

On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 9:45 PM Kent Dorfman [off-list ref] wrote:

A general question:

Do the network rate shaping queues apply to all network traffic in the
system, or just to the AF_INET address family?

If you mean Qdisc's like HTB, they apply universally to all traffic going
through it, unless of course you do your own packet filtering on top.

What if we have other classes of network drivers (non ethernet) that
also use a BSD socket interface, but a different address family?  Are
those messages also subject to the rate shaping, or are they generally
FIFO to the driver queue?

They are not specific to Ethernet either.

Thanks.