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Date:      Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:14:30 +0200
From:      Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Cc:        Giulio Ferro <auryn@zirakzigil.org>, Alexandre Biancalana <biancalana@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: altq on vlan
Message-ID:  <200806271914.30216.max@love2party.net>
In-Reply-To: <8e10486b0806270957y439087a5ia0d4689ad2f24ce8@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <4863FA62.2030703@zirakzigil.org> <200806271036.12195.max@love2party.net> <8e10486b0806270957y439087a5ia0d4689ad2f24ce8@mail.gmail.com>

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On Friday 27 June 2008 18:57:59 Alexandre Biancalana wrote:
> On 6/27/08, Max Laier <max@love2party.net> wrote:
> > You don't need a patch at all.  What you do is:  Queue on the
> > physical interface, classify on the vlan interface.  It is broken to
> > allow ALTQ on a virtual interface if you can do it otherwise.
> >
> >  in pf.conf speak:
> >
> >  If you have "ifconfig vlanX vlandev bge0 ..."
> >
> >  altq on bge0 .... queue { vlan0, vlan1, ... }
> >  queue vlan0 ... { vlan0_foo, vlan0_bar, ... }
> >  queue  vlan0_foo
> >  queue  vlan0_bar
> >  ...
> >
> >  pass on vlanX  ... queue vlanX_foobar
> >
> >  And there you go.  No patch - whatsoever - required here.
>
> But the patch simplify the cases where you need one queue per vlan.

NO!  It is just wrong!  There is no relation between vlan queues on the 
same physical interface and thus you can't guarantee anything!  Can we 
please stop with this nonsense and not bring up the patch every other 
month.

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