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List:       ipfilter
Subject:    Re: ipf and ALTq
From:       Darren Reed <darrenr () reed ! wattle ! id ! au>
Date:       2006-01-18 11:11:38
Message-ID: 200601181111.k0IBBcGx015778 () firewall ! reed ! wattle ! id ! au
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> While people are making requests for ipf porting and such. Are there any plans
> to integrate ALTq into ipf? The frameworks are on most if not all BSD's, but
> unfortunately they abandoned the old altqd for the IMO, non-intuitive
> interface with pf. The best that we can do now is FreeBSD 5.2 or 5.3.
> Nobody's making patch sets for the old style altq and the newer FreeBSD
> versions. This has been holding us up from upgrading to ipfilter 4 and a
> newer base OS.

That's what you get from people who don't understand what software
engineering is vs just hacking something to make it work.

There are a couple of people around who are aware of the problem and
have said something about fixing it, so there is hope that something
might happen - just not quickly.

Another option is to use NetBSD instead of FreeBSD, where ALTQ still
works in the "old" way.

Darren
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