ipfw(8) and additional scheduling algorithm specifications

[grenville armitage]

Hi David,

The  related documentation update did fall between the cracks, and is currently sitting in https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12507

cheers,
gja


On 12/16/2017 07:35, David Wolfskill wrote:
> I've started looking into configuring ipfw & dummynet to see if
> FQ-CoDel might improve things for my home Internet connection
> (residential ADSL).
>
> In the process of reviewing the available documentation, I note that
> ipfw(8) has:
>
> | ...
> | The following case-insensitive parameters can be configured for a
> | scheduler:
> |
> | type {fifo | wf2q+ | rr | qfq}
> | specifies the scheduling algorithm to use.
> | ....
>
> On the other hand, `cd /usr/src/sys/netpfil/ipfw; ls dn_{aqm,sched}*.c`
> shows:
>
> dn_aqm_codel.c dn_sched_fq_codel.c dn_sched_qfq.c
> dn_aqm_pie.c dn_sched_fq_pie.c dn_sched_rr.c
> dn_sched_fifo.c dn_sched_prio.c dn_sched_wf2q.c
>
>
> (This reflects head @r326875 and stable/11 @r326848.)
>
> So it seems that the list of scheduling algorithms in ipfw(8) is a bit
> more restricted than the code supports.
>
> Is this observation correct? If so, is it intentional?
>
> Thanks!
>
> I've set Reply-To.
>
> Peace,
> david
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