Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:51:54 +0300 From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org> To: "J. Buck Caldwell" <freebsd@bitparts.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ALTQ on GIF tunnels? Message-ID: <20060119085154.GB83922@cell.sick.ru> In-Reply-To: <43CED0F0.3010704@bitparts.org> References: <43CC8532.6080404@bitparts.org> <20060118122540.GO83922@FreeBSD.org> <43CED0F0.3010704@bitparts.org>
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 05:36:16PM -0600, J. Buck Caldwell wrote: J> Gleb Smirnoff wrote: J> >On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 11:48:34PM -0600, J. Buck Caldwell wrote: J> >J> Is there any work on adding support for ALTQ to the GIF tunnel J> >J> interface? I'm having wonderful results getting ALTQ working on normal J> >J> interfaces, but it would be heavenly to prioritize the traffic inside J> >J> the tunnels. J> > J> >You can (and probably should) enable ALTQ on the physical interface J> >that gif(4) runnels use for encapsulated packets. J> > J> Yes, but that doesn't do any good for the packets traveling inside the J> tunnel. Specifically, I have a corporate network hooked to a branch via J> VPN, and want to prioritize not just the tunnel over ordinary traffic, J> but prioritize different types of traffic inside the tunnel. You tag packets with ALTQ identifier in ipfw/pf, and this identifier isn't lost after packet is encapsulated. So, when going out the physical interface the packet will be queued according to the ALTQ policy you have specified. -- Totus tuus, Glebius. GLEBIUS-RIPN GLEB-RIPE
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