I can't wait to see the replies on this. What you're describing might be exactly what I need to do, but I haven't been sure I wanted to deal with the extra complexity.
On 7/14/05, Karl O. Pinc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > It's been said on this list before that you can't > queue inbound traffic, say from a lower bandwidth > link to the net, effectively on a host that is multi-homed. > The solution has always been to do QOS on another > 2-port box between the multi-homed host and the net. > > It occurs to me that I should be able to create > a loopback device and use a pf filter rule > with "route-to" to deliver all inbound traffic to the > the loopback device. I could then > queue on the loopback device. > > Is there any reason I should not pursue this? > Am I missing something here? Seems to me like > this would be completely transparent, except > that you'd lose all tags routed through the loopback. > But that should be easy to fix by tagging > the output of the loopback rather than the > output of the Internet NIC, as route-to return > traffic would not go through the loopback. > > Any guidance would be appreciated. > > Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." > -- Robert A. Heinlein >
