Subject: Re: Changing bandwidth without rebooting on a ALTQ rate controlled
To: Dave Poirier <instinc@users.sourceforge.net>
From: Carl Brewer <carl@bl.echidna.id.au>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/20/2005 10:41:00
Dave Poirier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> using the very simplified configuration file:
> 
> [/etc/altq.conf]
> 
> interface wm1 bandwidth 1M hfsc
> class hfsc wm1 def_class root pshare 100 default
> 
> [end of /etc/altq.conf]
> 
> If I attempt to change the bandwidth and restart ALTQ, I receive the
> following message in /var/log/messages:
> 
> ---
> Jan 19 02:06:25 pmcnet altqd[565]: tbr is already installed on wm1,
> using the current setting (rate:1.00M  size:1.46K).
> ---
> 
> Is there a way to modify the tbr rate without rebooting NetBSD?

Should be, use tbrconfig.  It's just like ifconfig :)

Carl