On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 8:22 PM Stuart Henderson <stu.li...@spacehopper.org> wrote:
> On 2023-09-12, Andrew Lemin <andrew.le...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ahhhh, thats clever! Having bandwidth queues up to 34,352M would > definitely > > provide runway for the next decade :) > > > > Do you think your idea is worth circulating on tech@ for further > > discussion? Queueing at bps resolution is rather redundant nowadays, even > > on the very slowest links. > > tech@ is more for diffs or technical questions rather than not-fleshed-out > quick ideas. Doing this would solve some problems with the "just change it > to 64-bit" mooted on the freebsd-pf list (not least with 32-bit archs), > but would still need finding all the places where the bandwidth values are > used and making sure they're updated to cope. > > Yes good point :) I am not in a position to undertake this myself at the moment. If none of the generous developers feel included to do this despite the broad value, I might have a go myself at some point (probably not able until next year sadly). "just change it to 64-bit" mooted on the freebsd-pf list - I have been unable to find this conversation. Do you have a link? > > -- > Please keep replies on the mailing list. > >
