On 10/8/20 11:13 PM, Simon Matter wrote:
>> On 10/8/2020 7:12 PM, Simon Matter wrote:
>>>> On 10/8/20 3:19 AM, Simon Matter wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> It happened recently to me when moving a firewall to a new location...
>>>>>
>>>>> Before moving I adapted VLAN config and Shorewall configuration. The
>>>>> TC
>>>>> config was blindly modified by me to use 'gbit' units.
>>>>>
>>>>> In the new location nothing seemed to work - you can think of headless
>>>>> firewall and headless admin - and I had a hard time to find out that
>>>>> changing the TC config from 'mbit' to 'gbit' didn't work. :(
>>>>>
>>>>> Attached patch against 5.2.8 is my proposal to add support for
>>>>> g,gb,gbit
>>>>> and gbps.
>>>>>
>>>>> From what I saw on my systems is that not all 'tc' versions support
>>>>> 'gbit'
>>>>> but AFAIK Shorewall always converts the units to 'kbit' for
>>>>> compatibility.
>>>>>
>>>>> Am I right assuming so?
>>>>>
>>>>> As always, feedback an testing is appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, Simon.
>>>>
>>>> Note that in the Shorewall/code git repository
>>>> (https://gitlab.com/shorewall/code), there are no .annotabed sample
>>>> files. Those files are created during the build process by combining
>>>> each plain config file with its associated manpage.
>>>>
>>>> Also, the manpages are generated from .xml files; so when modifying a
>>>> manpage, the patch must be against the XML file and not the resulting
>>>> manpage.
>>>>
>>>> So you only need to provide patches for Tc.pm, tcinterfaces.xml,
>>>> tcdevices.xml and tcclasses.xml.
>>>
>>> Thanks Tom, now that you say it I remember there were XLM doc files :-)
>>>
>>> I'll redo the patch tomorrow.
>>>
>>
>> The clone command for the code repository is at (1).
>>
>> Sending the patches formatted with 'git format-patch' is best but 'git
>> diff' will also do it! :)
> 
> Since I'm not really a developer and never used git please allow me to
> send a pure diff against master.
> 
> @Tom, hope I got it right with the XLM files this time.
> 

Looks good,

Thanks, Simon!

-Tom
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