From owner-freebsd-ipfw Sat Nov 13 18:54:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Received: from green.myip.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ADC61512D; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 18:53:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] ident=green) by green.myip.org with esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 11mpkR-000PFC-00; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 21:50:36 -0500 Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 21:50:35 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman X-Sender: green@green.myip.org To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Barry Irwin , ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TOS support for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Barry Irwin wrote: > > > TOS is type-of-service, and is determined by bits 8->15 in the IP Header. > > [...] yes, I knew all this :) > > > Linux ipchanis allows one to modify the tos bits on a packet providing it > > matches certain rules, this is the functionality I was wondering was > > avaliable in FreeBSD > > This is what I was asking about. > > You might be able to do this with ipfilter, but ipfw doesn't (TOS isn't > used much in the internet, AFAIK). There are probably other ways do > achieve the same goal (traffic priority) on your Linux router which are > more compatible with freebsd. For a modest price for time, I could have this in IPFW easily if you give me a description of what functionality is that which you want. Otherwise, I could put it on my list of things to add to the new IPFW (damn, I really need to write that paper!) when I work on that; or, I could get to it whenever I next get really bored :) > > Kris > > ---- > Cthulhu for President! For when you're tired of choosing the _lesser_ of > two evils.. > -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / green@FreeBSD.org `------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ipfw" in the body of the message