Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 16:19:34 -0800 (PST) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: phate1@ix.netcom.com Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Software bandwidth limiting solution Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9902221618010.2053-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> In-Reply-To: <000d01be5eac$87517140$29e76dd1@dialup.phate.com>
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On Mon, 22 Feb 1999 phate1@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running 3.0-Stable. > > I'm trying to limit bandwidth to one of the boxes to to below 5Mbps (it's > eating up a full 10Mbps lan).. > Specifically just limit port 80 (web traffic) so I can telnet/ftp without > any lag.. > > I tried dummynet, but it only seems to queue incoming packets, which results > in me running out of my mbufs (8192 total), and the system reboots. > > Can a software solution handle this? Or would I need something hardware > based? Well, there is the altq package. Not sure if it works on 3.x though. altq has lots more functionality. I'm not even sure why altq wasn't imported instead of dummynet. Search the archives. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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