DSMARK queuing discipline

DSMARK queuing discipline was specially designed by Werner Almesberger (C sources indicate that Werner wrote this code), Jamal Hadi Salim and Alexey Kuznetsov to fulfill with the Differentiated Service specifications. It is in charge of packet marking in the DS Linux  implementation.

Its behavior is really very simple when it is compared with some other Linux Traffic Control queuing disciplines. People complain about how to use DSMARK because the available documentation is really highly technical. I will try to clear is this section, as far as my understanding permits this, how to configure and how to use the DSMARK queuing discipline.

Differentiated Service on Linux HOWTO

1.0. Differentiated Service Theory

1.1 Introduction 1.2 The specifications 1.3 The DS field 1.4 The architecture 1.5 Assure Forwarding PHB Group 1.6 Expedited Forwarding PHB

2.0. Linux Queuing Disciplines

2.1.- Linux Traffic Control 2.2.- FIFO queuing disciple 2.3.- PRIO queuing disciple 2.4.- TBF queuing discipline 2.5.- SFQ queuing discipline 2.6.- RED queuing discipline   2.7.- GRED queuing discipline   2.8.- HTB queuing discipline   2.9.- DSMARK queuing discipline   2.10.- TCINDEX classifier   2.11.- Policing

3.0. Differentiated Service on Linux distribution

3.1.- Edge1 3.2.- Edge2   3.3.- Edge31-ca-u32   3.4.- Edge32-ca-u32   3.5.- Edge31-cb-tables   3.6.- Edge32-cb-tables   3.7.- Edge32-cb-u32   3.8.- Afhtb   3.9. ef-prio   3.10.- ef-htb

??. References