Re: suggestions for next version

Marco Molteni wrote:
> Yesterday I was showing a coworker how easy it is to use a PC with
> 2 ethernet interfaces, freesbie and dummynet to do traffic shaping,
> introduce delays, random packet drops and such.
> 
> I boot the PC and start configuring the dummynet pipes, but I get
> an unclear message from ipfw: protocol not supported.
> 
> After a while I have an illumination and loaded the dummynet KLD!
> 
> My collegue was _very_ impressed :-)
> 
> Now to the suggestion: /boot/loader.conf should load dummynet,
> so to allow people not familiar with fbsd kernel and modules
> to use the wonderful dummynet system.

actually there's a bug in freebsd when using dummynet and pf together 
(no packets pass). We've encountered that in pfSense. I've talked about 
that with luigi@, and he said probably this bug was introduced by pfil 
integration.

So, I think we can specify in a FAQ "if you want to use dummynet, 
kldload it" instead of loading it by default. I want also let freesbie 
user try pf, if they want to.

Bye,
Dario


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