dummynet: bandwidth is limited to 2 Gbit/s ?

John Hay jhay at meraka.org.za
Wed Sep 25 10:27:32 UTC 2019


On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 at 11:16, Eugene Grosbein <eugen at grosbein.net> wrote:

> On 25.09.2019 05:19, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>
> >> AFAIK, we never had any public ABI or stable KBI interface announced to
> userland or in-kernel consumers
> >> and had no consumers of dummynet other than ipfw(8) binary. Just
> increase type.
> >
> > Any attempt to mfc this would break KABI/userland and that is never
> > a good thing to do.  It may not be a public ABI, but it is an ABI,
> > and stability of that and backwards compatibility are always a good
> > thing to strive for.
>
> Agreed. So, no MFC for this.
>

Will this break upgrades with freebsd-update? On a major upgrade, it will
first install the new kernel and require a reboot before you run
freebsd-update again to install the rest.

Regards

John


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