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Re: New NetBSD user - ALTQ confusion



On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 01:09:48 -0000
"David Lord" <netbsd%lordynet.org@localhost> wrote:

> On 15 Dec 2010 at 20:02, Gerard Lally wrote:
> 
> > I am having some trouble getting ALTQ working in NetBSD 5.1 x86_64.
> > The man page for pf.conf appears to suggest queueing is
> > implemented in the packet filtering engine, the same way it is
> > implemented in OpenBSD. My research so far, however, suggests the
> > NetBSD ALTQ implementation consists of a separate daemon.
> > 
> > This is what I have concluded so far:
> > 
> > 1) for ALTQ to run in NetBSD PF needs to be compiled into the
> > kernel, not run as a loadable kernel module;
> > 
> > 2) ALTQ is not configured in /etc/pf.conf, as the man page appears
> > to suggest, but rather in /etc/altq.conf;
> > 
> > 3) the section on queueing in the NetBSD pf.conf man page is
> > redundant.
> > 
> > I have tried to get ALTQ going based on these assumptions but I am
> > having no success. I would like to know before going further that
> > the picture is clear in my head with regard to what is happening
> > and where. many thanks.
> > 
> 
> I'm on i386 and not yet using a recent NetBSD.
> I'm also using ipfilter/ipnat but I don't see how
> that relates to using altq.

I am using PF David. I was trying to figure out if the NetBSD
implementation of altq was integrated into PF as it is in OpenBSD or an
external plugin using a separate configuration file.

-- 
Gerard Lally

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