Re: the future of ALTQ

[Peter Eisch <peter%boku.net@localhost>]

I use it on a couple systems.  It’s my poor-man’s way tracking bandwidth
usages (not so much clamping) of specific services.  I then have munin
scrape the stats for graphing.

peter

On 2/18/14, 9:28 AM, "Greg Troxel" <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> 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 :-)