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Date:      Thu, 7 Jul 2011 00:09:43 +0100
From:      Greg Hennessy <Greg.Hennessy@nviz.net>
To:        Calomel Org <infallibilismindefeasibility@calomel.org>, "freebsd-pf@freebsd.org" <freebsd-pf@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: pf ALTQ bandwidth limited to a 32bit value (4294Mb)
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In-Reply-To: <20110706152506.GA26334@calomel.org>

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> 
> ALTQ using hfsc is limited to a maximum parent bandwidth of 4294Mb.
> This value is 2^32 or 4,294,967,296 bits. If you set the bandwidth any higher,
> altq will flip back to zero. This "bug" was found when trying to test 10 gigabit
> and 40 gigabit bandwidth models. 

What a problem to have :-) 

On a side note out of pure curiousity, what's PF performance like up in the stratosphere under those sort of loads/packet rates ? :-)


Greg



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