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Date:      Sun, 24 Feb 2002 21:24:21 -0800
From:      Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
To:        Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>
Cc:        Jerry Murdock <jerry_murdock@yahoo.com>, FreeBSD user <freebsd@XtremeDev.com>, Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>, freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ipfw, dummynet, weights, and ssh?
Message-ID:  <20020224212421.A88678@iguana.icir.org>
In-Reply-To: <3C797EAA.4090005@tenebras.com>
References:  <20020224193958.95528.qmail@web14603.mail.yahoo.com> <3C797EAA.4090005@tenebras.com>

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On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 04:00:42PM -0800, Michael Sierchio wrote:
> Jerry Murdock wrote:
> 
> >http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/bsdcon01/dummynet/mgp00020.txt
> 
> Geez, that's the beauty of an example.  It almost seems obvious.
> I vote for either adding it to the (already lengthy) man page,
> or perhaps including in a /usr/share/examples/ipfw/etc.
> 
> One further question:  is it possible to use separate queues of
> the same weight to insure fairness -- i.e. is there a round robin
> approach to queues of equal weight with backlogs?

of course yes. Both for same and different weight.
Ever wondered why this type of scheduling is called Weighted FAIR Queueing ?

Now i understand that the manpage is rather concise on this particular
topic, but turning it into a 40-pages tutorial on traffic management
and scheduling would be equally bad for those just looking at the
command syntax.

	cheers
	luigi

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