On 2015/03/25 13:25, Petr Topiarz wrote:
> 
> > 
> > The direction on the "pass" rule is related to which packets that rule
> > matches. So a packet comes in and matches a rule and creates a state
> > table entry. If that rule has a queue specifier, the state entry is
> > marked with the queue name.
> > 
> > Now when you have any packet matching that state, that queue assignment
> > is used; if the outbound interface that this packet will be sent over
> > has a queue with that name, traffic will be queued.
> > 
> > 
> 
> OK, so do you suggest that inbound traffic cannot be shaped? If that was
> true, then PF after 5.5 release would not be able to do what it was able to
> do before with altq. Now that is sad...
> 
> 

No, queuing incoming packets was never supported.

What are you going to do with them anyway? You can't stop the other
device on the network from sending to you.

I think you have some confusion between "queueing inbound" and "creating
state on inbound traffic". When you clear that up, the rest should
all fall into place.

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