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1.1     ! christos    1: [[!template id=project
        !             2: 
        !             3: title="ALTQ Refactoring and NPF Integration"
        !             4: 
        !             5: contact="""
        !             6: [tech-kern](mailto:tech-kern@NetBSD.org)
        !             7: """
        !             8: 
        !             9: mentors="""
        !            10: [Christos Zoulas](mailto:christos@NetBSD.org)
        !            11: """
        !            12: 
        !            13: category="kernel"
        !            14: difficulty="medium"
        !            15: duration="2-3 months"
        !            16: 
        !            17: description="""
        !            18: [ALTQ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALTQ) (ALTernate Queueing) is
        !            19: an optional network packet scheduler for BSD systems. It provides various
        !            20: queueing disciplines and other quality of service (QoS) related
        !            21: components required to control resource usage.
        !            22: 
        !            23: It is currently it is integrated
        !            24: [pf(4)](http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?pf++NetBSD-current)
        !            25: 
        !            26: Unfortunately it was written a long time ago and it suffers from a lot
        !            27: of code duplication, dangerous code practices and can use improvements
        !            28: both in the API and implementation. After these problems have been addressed
        !            29: it should be integrated with
        !            30: [npf(4)](http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?npf++NetBSD-current)
        !            31: 
        !            32: """
        !            33: ]]
        !            34: 
        !            35: [[!tag gsoc]]