Pf in 4.11

[Greg Hennessy]

> As for the queuing method, i've read that cbq is a more 
> refined/reliable than hfsc right now. 

Cant say I've had reliability problems with HFSC. 

It does require the sacrifice of several barnyard fowl to configure
correctly, but I digress. 

> Anyway, why would ACK 
> prioritization be necessary on the pf/altq setup vs the 
> ipfw/dummynet setup?

Never having had the pleasure of using dummynet/ipfw I couldn't possibly
comment. 

But I would always recommend configuring some form of ACKPRI on a congested
link. 
Backoff will kill tcp traffic otherwise. 


Greg



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