Hi,

A while a go I was asking about how to get ALTQ working with PF, and one 
way or another I ended up finding some patches to enable the 
functionality. Said patches were from http://nedbsd.nl/~ppostma/pf/, but 
this site no longer seems to have the 'beta' patches for NetBSD 3.x any 
more. It just says to use -current now 
(http://nedbsd.nl/~ppostma/pf/altq.html). This is something I don't 
really want to do.

I [apparently quite wrongly] assumed that this might mean PF+ALTQ has 
been sorted out in 3.1, and so I updated my sources. I noticed during 
the update that some PF/ALTQ files were "M" for the status, rather than 
"P" or whatever, which seems to indicate that CVS figured I had patched 
my files locally, but any changes were 'merged' OK. I went ahead with a 
kernel build to test, it compiled OK and it's running just fine right 
now, albeit with a 3.0.1 userland. A good start!

I'm now trying to compile the userland, but I ran in to some sort of 
error. I think it's something to do with 'altqd', the userland daemon. I 
would post the error output, but the build was done over serial console 
using 'hyperterm', and scrolling up has revealed a rather garbled 
unreadable output. *sigh*

I do still have a patch which apparently prevents this from being built. 
I don't remember using it before (though I may have, my memory is bad), 
and the filename has -current in it. I've run this patch, and it failed 
on two files but just about managed with the rest. One file just seemed 
to be a comment line, so I ignored that. The other file just needed 
"altq" removing from a Makefile variable by the looks of it, so I have 
changed that manually. I'm rebuilding right now, so I shall let you know 
if this has let me build the userland soon. Should this work, and 
someone else is in the same position as I am, I can try and fight my way 
through figuring out how to make a 'patch set' which works nicely on 3.1.




Why am I e-mailing before it's finished?

Well, first of all I just wanted to ask whether there was plans to 
integrate ALTQ with PF yet? Maybe it's already been sorted out in 
-current (4.0?) as that website seems to suggest? If so, is there any 
chance of it being 'back ported' to 3.x?

Secondly is just a small success story (in the hope it might help get 
the patches checked over and integrated) with the patches on 3.0.1. I 
was running the patches on 3.0.1, as well as 3.0.0 briefly, for a good 
200+ days without anything bad happening. It seemed to be working 
flawlessly, although I wasn't really stressing it. I was only using the 
basic priority queue functionality. It was still a god send, as it 
allowed me to do the whole TCP ACK priority thing, so that my 'net no 
longer *completely* dies when someone decides to upload something!

Thanks,
-- 
Mark Cullen <mark.r.cullen@gmail.com>
BSc (Hons), Computer Science