RE: [ns] Priority queues

[Padmaparna Haldar <haldar@ISI.EDU>]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Robin Poss wrote:

> I guess Prefer_Routing_Protocols is used to put the
> routing-related packets first in the queues. That way,
> if the network is overloaded, the load control related
> packets telling everybody to stop sending packets
> won't get trashed because of buffer overflow
> somewhere.
>
[..]
> Could some one explain
> i) why a 'filter' member function is used in
> the PriQueue class.

I believe a packetfilter is used to implement prioritisation in priqueue.
packets are filtered using either a specific address or any other priority
metric.
--Padma.

> Thanx,
> Gokul.
>
>
>
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Padmaparna Haldar