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From: Greg Hennessy <Greg.Hennessy@nviz.net>
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Thread-Topic: pf ALTQ bandwidth limited to a 32bit value (4294Mb)
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>=20
> 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 hi=
gher,
> altq will flip back to zero. This "bug" was found when trying to test 10 =
gigabit
> and 40 gigabit bandwidth models.=20

What a problem to have :-)=20

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