Re: NetBSD packet filter

[Emmanuel Nyarko <emmankoko519%gmail.com@localhost>]

> On 11 Oct 2024, at 4:35 AM, J. Lewis Muir <jlmuir%imca-cat.org@localhost> wrote:
> 
> On 09/28, Emmanuel Nyarko wrote:
>> I’m currently working on integrating ALTQ in NPF packet filter. 
>> From few informations gathered, the community is trying to keep NPF up to date with things in ipf and pf.
>> So I am happy to hear from whoever is using pf/ipf or is actively aware of what features npf is missing so we can get NPF very up to date with the desired packet filtering features so we can use that as our primary packet filter.
> 
> Hi, Emmanuel!
> 
> I wish for traffic shaping support in NPF.  Since you're working on
> integrating altq(4) into NPF, I think you've got packet shaping covered,
> so just a +1 for that!
> 
> And you probably already know it, but macOS and FreeBSD have traffic
> shaping via dummynet(4).  And just looking at man pages, it seems that
> FreeBSD also has altq(4), but macOS does not.
macOS uses PF right??
I’m not getting you. You want a proposal made to macOS to rather use ALTQ in traffic shaping ??
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Lewis


Emmanuel