Dummynet

[Luigi Rizzo]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 02:26:41PM +0000, Vadim Goncharov wrote:
> Hi Jon Otterholm! 
> 
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:02:44 +0200; Jon Otterholm wrote about 'SV: Dummynet':
> 
> >> Try to write "buckets 4096" before "mask", though this is unlikely to help,
> >> there are some troubles with 8.1's changes in parser.
> > Didn't help. 
> 
> I've heared about similar bug, but with "queue" after "mask", when it helped.
> 
> >>> Am I missing something here? This worked fine in the 7-branch.
> >> 
> >> The reason is that luigi@ merged ipfw3 from -CURRENT between 8.0R and
> >> 8.1R.
> >> There are many new features and, as seen from many PRs, many new bugs.
> > OK. I just have to wait then for luigi@ to submit fixes.
> > Thanks for the tips and info.
> > Should I expect and be prepared for any other flaws from the current version of dummynet in 8-STABLE?
> 
> Yes. I think you should better go to
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?&sort=none&text=ipfw and
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?&sort=none&text=dummynet
> and find reports similar to yours. If there no such, create your one -
> because:
> 1) this is official place for bug reports, they won't get lost, and in
>    mail lists - they may get lost
> 2) luigi@ just may be not knowing about the bug without report

I believe this bug was reported and fixed in our internal tree,
but did not find the time yet to commit it, due to the 8.1 release
cycle and then vacation and other committments.

cheers
luigi