--- Quoting William Bloom on 2005/10/10 at 13:56 -0700: > The PF man page gives meager detail about the congestion counter. And the > only > FAQ items for this that I can find are related to queueing (and I don't have > queues in my ruleset). What is the meaning of a non-zero congestion counter, > and what action is PF taking when the congestion counter is incremented?
If the output interface queue is congested (i.e., is full), pf will just drop the packet and then increment the counter. This is independant of altq.

