Re: Clarification on recommended method of ACK queueing

2006-11-11 Thread Massimo Lusetti
On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 07:59 +0100, Daniel Hartmeier wrote: > Daniel I could collect sentences from your posts and write a book! -- Massimo.run();

Re: Clarification on recommended method of ACK queueing

2006-11-10 Thread Daniel Hartmeier
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 12:44:46AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If OpenBSD is acting as an Ethernet bridge and pf/alt is assigning > packets to queues (cbq), the correct rule to send empty ACK packets to a > high priority queue would be something like this?: > > pass out on $wan_if proto tcp

Re: Clarification on recommended method of ACK queueing

2006-11-10 Thread Nathan Valentine
> > > > pass out on $ext_if proto tcp from $ext_if to any flags S/SA \ > > keep state queue (q_def, q_pri) > Whether one specific packet of the connection (matching the state) gets > assigned to q_def or q_pri DOES depend on the flags it has, but that is > hardcoded: empty ACKs go to q_pri, e

Re: Clarification on recommended method of ACK queueing

2006-11-10 Thread Daniel Hartmeier
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 11:10:47AM -0800, Nathan Valentine wrote: > Reference: http://www.benzedrine.cx/ackpri.html > > One of the rules in that document is: > > pass out on $ext_if proto tcp from $ext_if to any flags S/SA \ > keep state queue (q_def, q_pri) The 'flags S/SA' part of this

Clarification on recommended method of ACK queueing

2006-11-10 Thread Nathan Valentine
Reference: http://www.benzedrine.cx/ackpri.html One of the rules in that document is: pass out on $ext_if proto tcp from $ext_if to any flags S/SA \ keep state queue (q_def, q_pri) But, this is from the pf.conf man page: flags / | / This rule only applies to TCP packets that hav