FreeBSD 10.3 igb driver does not support altq

George g.lister at nodeunit.ch
Fri Oct 14 23:00:45 UTC 2016


On Fri, 14 Oct 2016 10:00:01 +0200
"Kristof Provost" <kp at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On 14 Oct 2016, at 4:51, George wrote:
> > I have a problem enabling ALTQ on my FreeBSD 10.3 router.
> >
> > I have compiled a custom kernel based off GENERIC enabling the igb
> > driver along with ALTQ support. When I then try to setup queues in
> > my pf.conf and try to use them when I do 'pfctl -nf /etc/pf.conf' I
> > get no errors, but when I do 'pfctl -vf /etc/pf.conf' I get an
> > error message:
> >
> > "pfctl: igb0: driver does not support altq"
> >
> > I am not sure what I am doing wrong. I checked the docs for ALTQ
> > and it lists the igb driver as having built-in support.
> >
> > I did what is necessary and I get this error, where do I go from
> > here? 
> In its default configuration the igb driver does not support ALTQ.
> 
> See https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/48283/
> 
> Basically, you need to rebuild the driver with IGB_LEGACY_TX defined.
> 
> Regards,
> Kristof

Thanks, will give that a shot.
Regards,
George


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