Andy Ruhl wrote:
> On 1/8/07, Mark Cullen <mark.r.cullen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Last I checked it's supposed to work with NetBSD 4. I guess we'll have
> to wait and see. I want to get it working too, but I don't want to use
> current or jump through hoops like you're doing.
> 
> Andy
> 

Well, this is sort of good news at least! I don't really want to jump 
through hoops either, but it looks like I have to. I find it hard to 
live without TCP ACK priority going :-) For what it's worth, I seem to 
remember it being really easy to get the patches working with 3.0.1, but 
that was admittedly a rather long time a go now!

I still hope it gets back ported to 3.x some time, if that's even possible!




Small update to the situation, the compile just finished, apparently 
without error this time. Running `./pfctl -vs queue` from 
/usr/src/dist/pf/sbin/pfctl seems to work fine, so I assume that, well, 
it's going to work!

You might also wonder why I am bothering to update if 3.0.1 was working 
OK for me? Well, yesterday, after ~90 days uptime I got some weird ATA 
related messages. Something about viaide losing an interrupt, over and 
over. Both my RAID-1 arrays had one disk marked as failed too. The 
machine didn't panic, but wd2 turned totally inaccessible until restart 
(atactl wd2 <any command> = timeout).

wd3 (on the same channel as wd2 from what I remember) is a Seagate 160GB 
drive, and the change log for 3.1 does mention something about Seagate 
driver related updates, so I am hoping this might be the solution to 
this problem...
-- 
Mark Cullen <mark.r.cullen@gmail.com>
BSc (Hons), Computer Science