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One thing could also be that by the time you have 10GE uplinks, shaping is not as important.

When we had 512kbit links, prioritizing VOIP would be a thing, and for asymmetric links like 128/512kbit it was prudent to prioritize small packets (ssh) and tcp ACKs on the outgoing link or the downloads would suffer, but when you have 5-10-25GE, not being able to stick an ACK packet in the queue is perhaps not the main issue.



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At this level wouldnt a proper implementation be segregating the link into multiple VMs (or jails?) ? Or is that the same thing on BSD?


And how would you propose doing that? Note: what do you think the feature essentially does?




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