From owner-freebsd-pf@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 28 10:27:05 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3230C16A57A for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 10:27:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from volker@vwsoft.com) Received: from frontmail.ipactive.de (frontmail.maindns.de [85.214.95.103]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E98DC13C4A3 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 10:27:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from volker@vwsoft.com) Received: from mail.vtec.ipme.de (unknown [89.53.125.132]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by frontmail.ipactive.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFC9112882A; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 11:26:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.18.3] (unknown [192.168.18.3]) by mail.vtec.ipme.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC8C22E56B; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 11:26:45 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <45BC7A66.9060807@vwsoft.com> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 11:26:46 +0100 From: Volker User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070119) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Max Laier References: <45BB67C0.1070004@vwsoft.com> <200701280153.48577.max@love2party.net> In-Reply-To: <200701280153.48577.max@love2party.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-VWSoft-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: volker@vwsoft.com X-ipactive-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ipactive-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ipactive-MailScanner-From: volker@vwsoft.com Cc: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ALTQ support for usb NICs? X-BeenThere: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion and general questions about packet filter \(pf\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 10:27:05 -0000 Max, On 01/28/07 01:53, Max Laier wrote: > On Saturday 27 January 2007 15:54, Volker wrote: >> I'm wondering about the following: Are there any technical reasons >> for not having ALTQ support for most (all?) usb NICs? >> >> Or did just too less people ask for it? > > The latter ... I believe there are just very few usb NICs in routers ;) > OTOH, converting a driver is a 10 lines diff. Look at > http://people.freebsd.org/~mlaier/ALTQ_driver/ and if you can't figure it > our yourself, let me know which one you'd like to test and I can come up > with the patch. thanks for your response. Well, I think they're not really common in routers but as PCI slots are becoming more and more a limited resource, more people will use an usb NIC to attach their DSL lines or attach new subnets. On my SoHo Server I'm using one for the DSL line and one for attaching an open WLAN AP on a permanent basis. Also using them a lot for testing purposes. Anyway, I've already checked altq(9) which describes the driver transition and I thought about patching the drivers myself. I've got a bunch of aue, one kue and a few currently unsupported NICs. So are you going to patch these drivers or may I do it and will you commit the changes to cvs if that works out? Greetings, Volker