Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 04:56:00 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: phate1@ix.netcom.com Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Software bandwidth limiting solution Message-ID: <199902230356.EAA18677@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <000d01be5eac$87517140$29e76dd1@dialup.phate.com> from "phate1@ix.netcom.com" at Feb 22, 99 04:44:03 pm
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> 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. 1) what dummynet rules are you using ? it seems to me that you are doing something wrong with them; a single pipe never queues more than 100 pkts (mbuf clusters) and almost certainly you want to set a much lower limit. don't know how you can hit 8192. 2) dummynet has had some bugs in the past which i have tried to fix (see e.g. recent commits to ip_output.c), so you'd have to tell me precisely what version of ip_fw.c, ip_dummynet.c and ip_output.c you are running. > Can a software solution handle this? Or would I need something hardware > based? dummynet is good for hard limits, altq is good for flexible bandwidth allocation without hard limits. cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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