Re: the future of ALTQ

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 10:28:01AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> Is anyone else using ALTQ?  I am wondering if there are alternatives, or
> if fixing altq to be more locking/mp-aware is a good plan (as part of
> the general effort in the network stack).
> 
> It seems our copy of pf is getting a bit old, and if that's not going to
> be maintained, perhaps altq config should use npf instead.
> 
> My group is not likely to have serious cycles to spend on this over the
> next year, but might (or might not) later.  I'm mostly asking to see if
> anyone else cares about this, or if we're the last people on the planet
> using these QoS features in NetBSD :-)

I'm still using it, but only marginally.
And with altqd, not with pf :)


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