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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