Dummynet + PF + vkernel

Sepherosa Ziehau sepherosa at gmail.com
Thu Apr 11 22:58:57 PDT 2013


On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 1:52 AM, Raimundo Santos <raitech at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> It is been a long time since I played a little with the NTFS driver within
> dlfy :)
>
> By now, I am working to a wifi ISP (and a webhosting in the near future) and
> we need to change our systems and equipaments. One of the most dificult
> thing of wifi access is limiting the bandwidth, because it need to be done
> via IP address. I really like the PF approach to QoS, NAT and a lot more
> things on it, but it do not permit overbooking.
>
> Dummynet is really a solution for me, and I was thinking: what about running
> Dummynet inside a vkernel and just forward the packets to the 'real' kernel,
> which in turn will run PF?

You could use ALTQ fairq w/ PF, which is similar to dummynet's WF2Q

Best Regards,
sephe

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