On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 05:10:40PM +0200, Stanislaw Halik wrote: > I can speak for myself - I can't afford both the hardware and the > electricity bill for a separate machine. Maybe downstream limiting isn't > very robust, but IMO is the biggest thing pf/altq lacks.
What I tried to express in the last paragraph of the referenced mail was that it's not pf that's lacking anything, but altq. There simply are no input queues with altq. If you added those queues to altq, you might not even have to change a single line in pf to get them used. While there are now ties between pf and altq (pf classifying packets for altq, and pfctl setting up queues), that doesn't mean the core of altq is maintained by the people who maintain pf. It's in separate source files, and if you compare the respective CVS histories, you'll see the difference. Question's of the form "why hasn't this been done" sound kind of weird to me, almost as if they were rhetorical. Assuming you haven't donated blood in the last month, "why haven't you"? Are you really interested in the petty excuses humans have for not doing things? :) Daniel
