Citrix Systems, Inc.
Large scale bandwidth management of IP flows using a hierarchy of traffic shaping devices

Abstract:

A computer network appliance may include a memory and a processor cooperating with the memory to run a classification kernel module performing traffic shaping on data packets based upon a first set of queuing disciplines (qdiscs). The processor may further run at least one virtual device also performing traffic shaping on the data packets based upon a second set of qdiscs different than the first set of qdiscs, and provide the data packets to a network interface.