On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 09:35:52PM +0900, itojun@iijlab.net wrote:
> 	API for ALTQ itself is open to any userland program, via ioctl.
> 	i worry about support issues (config syntax and such) if both ipfilter 
> 	and PF were to include ALTQ controller functionality.

Well, if altq is configured from the packet classifier engine's config file,
and each packet classifier use its own syntax to configure altq, I don't
see this as a big deal. They're different piece of software, after all.

Now, I don't see any real reason to configure altq from the
packet classifier config file. There are 2 different, separate things:
packet classifiers tag packets, and altq is one of the users of packet tags
(ipsec is one other, and I can see more packet classifiers than pf or ipf,
and more packet tags users than altq or ipsec, in some commercial developement
I'm aware). I think each packet classifier, and each packet tag user should
have its own config file with its own config tool, with only the tags names
in common.

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