Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 07:50:32 -0700 From: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> To: freebsd-net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: dummynet: bandwidth is limited to 2 Gbit/s ? Message-ID: <CAHu1Y72WKhk-4UTFjs7p-VRiGRPoZci90MwKasCWPoM0NGrzjg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BhQ2%2BjXxwkVMMoLMMdXU5RVqsMxfbQfNazVKTp9rB9i6z%2BJ3A@mail.gmail.com> References: <a1c0ac18-1290-a109-1c46-c8d6047cd8c1@FreeBSD.org> <CA%2BhQ2%2BjXxwkVMMoLMMdXU5RVqsMxfbQfNazVKTp9rB9i6z%2BJ3A@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 7:10 AM Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> wrote: > ... > An alternate, hack-ish approach would be to encode high speeds with > coarse granularity, > say speed 0x7fnnnnnn with n =3D 0.. 0xffffe representing speed in > Mbits/s (so that would give > you up to 16 Pbit/s) and reserve 0x7fffffff for the pre-existing > "2Gbit/s - 1" to avoid breaking > former userland that may pick that value. That actually sounds like a good approach, hackish or no. --=20 "Well," Brahm=C4=81 said, "even after ten thousand explanations, a fool is = no wiser, but an intelligent person requires only two thousand five hundred." - The Mah=C4=81bh=C4=81rata
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