altq for vlans?

Jeremie Le Hen jeremie at le-hen.org
Mon Feb 14 01:44:25 PST 2005


> Anyways, the _real_ problem is that traditionally, I'd used firewall
> rules for accounting as well as security.  To that end, labels are
> very cool.  However, they have one rather large defect:
> 
> If you're dealing with keep state rules, there seems to be no obvious
> way to account for incoming vs. outgoing traffic.  The label only
> reports total traffic for the state matching the rule... which is both
> in and out.

This is a workaround, but I found that ipfw's count rules are pretty
useful for this purpose.  This would however add processing overhead
for each packet especially using gigabit Ethernet.

Regards,
-- 
Jeremie Le Hen
jeremie at le-hen dot org


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