Re: NetBSD packet filter

Emmanuel Nyarko <[email protected]> Fri, 11 Oct 2024 15:45:21 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.devel.network
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> On 11 Oct 2024, at 3:43 PM, J. Lewis Muir <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 10/11, Emmanuel Nyarko wrote:
>>> On 11 Oct 2024, at 4:35 AM, J. Lewis Muir <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> And you probably already know it, but macOS and FreeBSD have traffic
>>> shaping via dummynet(4).  And just looking at man pages, it seems that
>>> FreeBSD also has altq(4), but macOS does not.
>> macOS uses PF right??
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> I’m not getting you. You want a proposal made to macOS to rather use ALTQ in traffic shaping ??
> 
> No, I was just noting what it uses for reference and as an example of
> the kind of capabilities it provides that I like (e.g., dummynet(4)
> pipes and queues) and that I'd like in NPF.
> 
Oh okay great great great. We can discuss more on that. 
> Lewis


Emmanuel