From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 27 11: 3:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F0CD37B8E0 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 11:03:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e3RIWkR06069; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 11:32:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 11:32:46 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Charles Henrich Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network Bandwdith Prioritization Message-ID: <20000427113246.B2254@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000427095432.F63681@sigbus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000427095432.F63681@sigbus.com>; from henrich@sigbus.com on Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 09:54:32AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Charles Henrich [000427 10:45] wrote: > Does anyone out there know of anything that would allow me to give priority to > certain types of data moving around our network? So far all i have been able > to find is software that allows you to limit. What I'd like to say is > "Everything is open, until packets of type X start coming through, then limit > everyone else except these packets" > Hmmm, you may be able to abuse the delay factor in dummynet to achieve this, but i'm not sure, try throttling the delay factor just a bit for low-priority traffic and let us know what happens when it competes with un-delayed data. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message