Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2020 11:03:09 +0100 From: "Kristof Provost" <kp@FreeBSD.org> To: "Sean Yeh" <sean.yeh117@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ALTQ feature of PF in FreeBSD Message-ID: <82251045-98CE-4B08-8716-BD958714017C@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CAOeSqSeMo-rNtoh=Ym5M_MvwsfO1ovxEr5ULg=GxRhkE3KbE6Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On 29 Feb 2020, at 0:35, Sean Yeh wrote: > Hi FreeBSD-pf members, > > I hope you guys are enjoying your weekend! > > I was wondering if any of you happened to know if the code for the > ALTQ > feature of pf could be separated and used for NetBSD's pf function. > I'm > currently investigating methods to improve NetBSD's ALTQ feature, > which > hasn't been updated in 15+ years: > https://wiki.netbsd.org/projects/project/altq/ > > According to the man pages of freeBSD's pf function, FreeBSD uses a > modified pf of openBSD 4.5 pf function. Are there any complications > that > you foresee trying to port FreeBSD's current ALTQ code into NetBSD? > > Thank you for all your help, > It might be more interesting to look at dummynet. Last year there was a GSoC proposal (in FreeBSD) to port dummynet to pf. Sadly the project wasn’t selected, but I believe the student did spend some time on investigating it. I’ll ask them to get in touch with you. Best regards, Kristofhome | help
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