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Your categorical rejection of openbsd+pf is based on a cursory google search and man page comparison? I have not seen any QoS comparisons of OpenBSD 5.6 versus
by dfc 11y ago
Your categorical rejection of openbsd+pf is based on a cursory google search and man page comparison? I have not seen any QoS comparisons of OpenBSD 5.6 versus Linux. Did you find any?
- wtallis 11y agoThere's nothing to compare. OpenBSD just plain doesn't have any active queue management. They used to have RED in the altq module, but it's been removed and I haven't found any mention of any other form of support for any of the common AQM algorithms. If it supports anything more advanced than classifying packets into a fixed set of priority queues with fixed packet count limits, it's well-hidden. What functionality is exposed and advertised through their man pages is simply not enough to put together a fully functional QoS system, regardless of how efficient it is with CPU time. There isn't even the theoretical possibility of OpenBSD doing good QoS unless they've got a large amount of complexity hidden and misleadingly glossed over by their documentation. In this case, running a dumb algorithm arbitrarily fast can never compete with the smarter algorithms.