Understandably so, but you also have to understand that fundamentally,
the way QoS in Linux (ala. IPCop) is done is different than the way ALTQ
works with pfSense. The facilities provided by the NIC driver are
really what make ALTQ functionality work. As such, you can't make an
apples to apples comparison of Linux QoS and ALTQ on BSD. If the BSD
driver doesn't have the facility support for the hooks that ALTQ uses,
you can either hack up the driver and add the functionality, or find a
better card. In the case of RealTek, I'd encourage you to find a better
card.
Carl Youngblood wrote:
Didn't say that. I'm just saying that realtek hardware is working
well running QoS with our existing firewall distro, so I know that it
is physically possible to do so. I'm not trying to philosophise about
the goals of the various firewall distros that are out there, nor
about the intelligence level of ipcop users :-)
On 5/2/06, Gary Buckmaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You're assuming that IPCop's primary motivation is for supporting only
the highest quality hardware, when in fact they have no such goals.
They are supporting the most common hardware to make a very simple
firewall package that even a mouthbreathing retard can figure out.
Don't assume that simply because they have support for Realtek hardware
(which is notoriously crappy) that this must make the hardware high
quality.
-Gary
Carl Youngblood wrote:
> I'm using realtek nics in our ipcop firewall with QoS right now and it
> is doing fine. This motherboard was actually meant to be a router, so
> I don't think they would have chosen an unuseable chipset.
>
> On 5/2/06, Christoph Hanle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Realtek 8169 for the 5 100 Mbit ports
>> > Realtek 8139 for the 1 Gigabit port
>>
>> Imho are these chipsets a joke and not usable in a firewall or
router.
>> You will get a lot of trouble with this scrap.
>> I had similar boxes running with pfSense and m0n0wall and trouble
with
>> the stability and performance of some connections. After replacing
the
>> boxes with "smaller" PCs with real NICs the problems are vanished.
>>
>> bye
>> Christoph
