Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 21:50:35 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org> Cc: Barry Irwin <bvi@rucus.ru.ac.za>, ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TOS support for FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911132148090.96933-100000@green.myip.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911131601070.4199-100000@hub.freebsd.org>
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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
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