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Date:      Thu, 18 Oct 2001 21:43:43 -0400
From:      "webdesigns COMNET" <webdesigns@comnet.ca>
To:        "Patrick O'Reilly" <patrick@mip.co.za>
Cc:        <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: ftp hogging bandwidth
Message-ID:  <00dc01c1583f$7daba770$0200000a@critter>
References:  <NDBBIMKICMDGDMNOOCAICEGLDLAA.patrick@mip.co.za>

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On that page, I read:
ipfw queue 1 config pipe 1 weight 30 mask dst-ip 0x000000ff  (ssh
connections may use 100% of available bandwidth)
What does tha value "weight 30" mean exactly?
I'm not to clear with the man explanation:  weight weight
             Specifies the weight to be used for flows matching this queue.
             The weight must be in the range 1..100, and defaults to 1.
Jason


----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick O'Reilly" <patrick@mip.co.za>
To: "Weldon S Godfrey 3" <weldon@excelsus.com>; "Joshua Holland"
<josh@bitstream.net>
Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 4:09 AM
Subject: RE: ftp hogging bandwidth


> Yes - look into ipfw, and specifically its DUMMYNET feature.
>
> Check this in the question list archive for some more details:
>
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1160624+0+current/freebsd-quest
> ions
>
> Patrick.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Weldon S
> > Godfrey 3
> > Sent: 17 October 2001 19:56
> > To: Joshua Holland
> > Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> > Subject: Re: ftp hogging bandwidth
> >
> >
> >
> > You mean the machine is bogging down or your outside connection is
getting
> > bogged down?
> >
> > I think the ftp session is taking your entire fractional T.  I don't
think
> > it would be slowing down your machine too much.
> >
> > IPFW I *think* has rate shaping ability.  You might be able to add rules
> > to set ftp to a certain bandwidth.
> >
> > I am now going beyond my experience, I haven't tried to rateshape on a
> > freebsd box yet.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Joshua Holland wrote:
> >
> > > I think they were ftp-ing through our box to an off site location.
> > >
> > > >I assuming that someone is ftping to a ftp server that is also your
> > > >nat/firewall box?
> > > >
> > > >One really cheezy way would be this:
> > > >
> > > >Have 2 nics on your server
> > > >
> > > >1 nic has the IP address for ftp.  In DNS you can make that IP
> > be whatever
> > > >you want (ftp.localhost, ftp.biststeam.net, etc)
> > > >
> > > >the other nic is doing the rest of your internal lan stuff
> > > >
> > > >and since you are doing nat, you might have a 3rd nic for WAN.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >if you don't have a 100Mb shared hub, or want to lower the ftp
> > bandwidth
> > > >further for some reason, you could force the dedicated ftp nic to
10Mb
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Joshua Holland wrote:
> > > >
> > > >>  Hello,
> > > >>
> > > >>  I help administer a FreeBSD machine that runs nat, dhcpd, mail and
> > > >>  web servers for an organization with about 75 desktop clients.
They
> > > >>  have a 256k fractional T1.  We have noticed the machine bogging
down
> > > >>  sometimes (people complaining of extremely slow web page
> > loading, and
> > > >>  when I ssh in, very slow response).  Top shows less than 1% of CPU
> > > >>  being used.  This last time, it seems someone was ftp-ing a 100MB
> > > >>  file, and when they terminated the transfer, everything was fast
> > > >>  again.  Is there anyway to prevent one client or process
> > from hogging
> > > >>  all that bandwidth?
> > > >>
> > > >>  Joshua Holland.
> > > >>
> > > >>
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