Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 10:44:33 +0100 From: Pawel Malachowski <pawmal-posting@freebsd.lublin.pl> To: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dummynet dynamically assigned bandwidth Message-ID: <20041107094433.GA56141@shellma.zin.lublin.pl> In-Reply-To: <1099819314.652.13.camel@Mobile1.276NET> References: <1099819314.652.13.camel@Mobile1.276NET>
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On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 12:21:55PM +0300, Martes Wigglesworth wrote: > I have had a problem getting dynamic bandwidth assigned while hosts are > still online. I thought that when a dynamic queue has no packets, hence > the pipe show displays 0 0 in between used and the last column, the > queue should disappear, allowing for that segment of bandwidth to be > utilized fully again. I have not seen this type of functionality, and > would like help to get a better understanding of it. > > Example: > > pipe 1 config bw 128Kbit/s > queue 1 config pipe 1 config mask dst-ip 0xffffffff > queue 1 ip from any to ${int_net} in recv ${ext_dev} > > Result: > if ext_net={ 192.168.1.0/24}, and 8 hosts are online, then the queues > remain even when there is no traffic on that queue. Aren't the unused > queues supposed to disappear so that the other hosts may use the > difference? > > Please help. I have been struggling with this for a while. By default, it will disappear after some time. Note, this has nothing to do with bandwidth sharing -- it is shared immediatly because when queue has nothing to send, system will take another queue without waiting. -- Paweł Małachowski
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