On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 08:22:51AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't think time spent developing PF or ALTQ could be better spent > developing something other than download queueing. Everyone here seems > to agree it's PF's worst deficiency.
Intresting definition for "Everyone". It seems the definition does not include the developers. If you can not live without "download queueing" you can always: 1. Write and submit a patch 2. Fund a developer to do the work for you. 3. Go run something else. I guess you would get bored after a while and choose #3. Feel free to surprise me though. Note that "unending trolling on the mailing lists" > I'm thinking perhaps there's some messy hack I can come up with using > virtual interfaces, does anyone have any ideas? Not that I know of. > > and there are 'lots of people' that care deeply about this > I said lots of people *here*, and there aren't close to 40 here, and > $500 is very steep for an extra box which has to do so little, and this > wouldn't require a whole hackathon to code. I'm not sure why you're > being so resistant to a feature request. This might surprise you but OpenBSD does not run on requests, or polls or democracy. If a developer feels that such a feature is intresting/important and have resources to spare, than the feature will be implemented. The best way to get results is to 'shut up and code'. > > By all means, try it. There are more readers (and developers) on the misc@ > > and tech@ lists, so I'd start there. > I posted in misc, but no-one was biting, and I've just sent one to > tech. > > > Stock altq could put token buckets on input interfaces for rate > > limiting purposes, referred to as the "traffic conditioner" (CDNR). > > That capability was removed when the classifier was merged with pf. > > > > Old messages that might be relevant: > > http://www.benzedrine.cx/pf/msg02871.html > > http://www.benzedrine.cx/pf/msg07159.html (bottom) > Interesting, I wonder how difficult it would be to get the > functionality back. Any ideas on why it was dropped in the first place? Input condititioners are different from queues. You would *not* have the same amount of control over the traffic as you would have when using a separate box. Can
