[Bug 194623] Re: [hardy] running wondershaper gives 'What is "flowid"? Illegal "police"'

[Jan Groenewald]

I am running jaunty beta now and though there is now flowid error, I
still get no packets dropped.

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[hardy] running wondershaper gives 'What is "flowid"? Illegal "police"'
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/194623
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Status in “iproute” source package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
Status in “shorewall” source package in Ubuntu: Invalid
Status in “wondershaper” source package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
Status in iproute in Ubuntu Hardy: Fix Released
Status in shorewall in Ubuntu Hardy: Invalid
Status in wondershaper in Ubuntu Hardy: Invalid
Status in “iproute” source package in Debian: Fix Released
Status in PLD Linux Distribution: New

Bug description:
Binary package hint: wondershaper

Latest checked version: 1.1a-4.1

Just upgrade my router from dapper to hardy. I'm seeing a problem with the wondershaper package. I've been running it like so from /etc/network/interface (as a post-up operation):

wondershaper eth3 4500 333

Doing ifup now gives:
$ sudo ifup eth3
... snip dhcp ...
What is "flowid"?
Illegal "police"
Failed to bring up eth3.


Now, when I run it, I get error messages:
burner at firewall:~$ sudo wondershaper eth3 4500 333
What is "flowid"?
Illegal "police"

And it doesn't seem to be limiting the transfer rates.

TEST CASE:
 * install the wondershapper package.
 * run the command:
    sudo /usr/sbin/wondershaper eth0 48 48

Output with -2ubuntu1:
  What is "flowid"?
  Illegal "police"

Output with 2ubuntu2: nothing.