Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 12:27:10 +0200 From: John Hay <jhay@meraka.org.za> To: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, freebsd-net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: dummynet: bandwidth is limited to 2 Gbit/s ? Message-ID: <CAGv8uaoBaG2dXpKZCEjuziOYaQg-PburN9PTnSpUey0cPdsDqA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5D8B3056.1020904@grosbein.net> References: <201909242219.x8OMJP3P013498@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <5D8B3056.1020904@grosbein.net>
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On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 at 11:16, Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> wrote: > On 25.09.2019 05:19, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > >> AFAIK, we never had any public ABI or stable KBI interface announced to > userland or in-kernel consumers > >> and had no consumers of dummynet other than ipfw(8) binary. Just > increase type. > > > > Any attempt to mfc this would break KABI/userland and that is never > > a good thing to do. It may not be a public ABI, but it is an ABI, > > and stability of that and backwards compatibility are always a good > > thing to strive for. > > Agreed. So, no MFC for this. > Will this break upgrades with freebsd-update? On a major upgrade, it will first install the new kernel and require a reboot before you run freebsd-update again to install the rest. Regards John
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