ALTQ on GIF tunnels?

J. Buck Caldwell freebsd at bitparts.org
Wed Jan 18 15:36:24 PST 2006


Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 11:48:34PM -0600, J. Buck Caldwell wrote:
> J> Is there any work on adding support for ALTQ to the GIF tunnel 
> J> interface? I'm having wonderful results getting ALTQ working on normal 
> J> interfaces, but it would be heavenly to prioritize the traffic inside 
> J> the tunnels.
>
> You can (and probably should) enable ALTQ on the physical interface
> that gif(4) runnels use for encapsulated packets.
>
>   
Yes, but that doesn't do any good for the packets traveling inside the 
tunnel. Specifically, I have a corporate network hooked to a branch via 
VPN, and want to prioritize not just the tunnel over ordinary traffic, 
but prioritize different types of traffic inside the tunnel.



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