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Date:      Sat, 24 May 2008 08:13:07 +1000
From:      Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
To:        Juri Mianovich <juri_mian@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: minimum bandwidth per connection with dummynet ?
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On 2008-May-23 02:47:30 -0700, Juri Mianovich <juri_mian@yahoo.com> wrote:
>- is there a simple setting that says "allocate
>bandwidth evenly between all connections in a
>saturated pipe" ?

TCP does this automatically.

>- alternatively, is there a minimum speed per
>connection that I can establish for a dummynet pipe ?=20

Not that I can see - you can use the 'mask' parameter to define a
maximum per-connection rate.  I don't believe there's any way to
redirect "overflow" traffic though.  You could probably write a
divert(4) application to do the shaping you require.

--=20
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.

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