# Worth Exploring: LibreQoS

DevFeed: [Worth Exploring: LibreQoS](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/worth-exploring-libreqos-11015.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ipspace.net/2024/05/worth-reading-libreqos/>)

Published: 2024-05-08T06:46:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [ipSpace.net blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ipspace-net-blog.md>)

Topics: [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Networks](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networks.md>), [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>), [x86](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/x86.md>)

Tags: [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [networks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/networks.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [platforms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platforms.md>), [qos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/qos.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>), [switching](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/switching.md>), [worth-reading](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/worth-reading.md>), [x86](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/x86.md>)

## AI overview

The article highlights LibreQoS, an open-source software solution that provides quality of service through software switching on many-core x86 platforms. Designed as a bump-in-the-wire system, it can be placed near network congestion points to manage packet dropping and prioritization.

## Source excerpt

Erik Auerswald pointed me to an interesting open-source project. LibreQoS implements decent QoS using software switching on many-core x86 platforms. It's implemented as a bump-in-the-wire software solution, so you should be able to plug it into your network just before a major congestion point and let it handle the packet dropping and prioritization. Obviously, the concept is nothing new. I wrote about a similar problem in xDSL networks in 2009.