From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 27 4:58:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay3-gui.server.ntli.net (relay3-gui.server.ntli.net [194.168.4.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D213F37B402 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 04:58:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from pc4-card4-0-cust162.cdf.cable.ntl.com ([80.4.14.162] helo=rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net ident=mailnull) by relay3-gui.server.ntli.net with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #2) id 16g3fH-00067R-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:58:35 +0000 Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net with local (Exim 3.35 #1) id 16g3es-0001Gg-00; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:58:10 +0000 Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:58:10 +0000 From: Ceri To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: IPFW/Dummynet - Internet Access Message-ID: <20020227125810.GA4724@rhadamanth> References: <20020227104755.GC23054@ns2.wananchi.com> <20020227110513.GA4011@rhadamanth> <20020227114913.GE23054@ns2.wananchi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020227114913.GE23054@ns2.wananchi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 02:49:13PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > * Ceri [20020227 14:06]: wrote: > > You can use VLANs with just one switch. > > I have to convince our > network engineer here that this can be done. > He asserts that this can not be done and quotes the following > URL - http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/lan/cat6000/sft_6_1/configgd/vlans.htm Any section in particular on that document (it's rather big) ? > > > QUESTION 2: I've already run IPFW on a FreeBSD box and while I am new to ipfw, I > > > see it's already running fine, bar for the tuning that it will require to achieve > > > the goal. If I want to do bandwidth limiting using dummynet, using the instructions > > > at www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ , at what point in rc.ipfw do I introduce the > > > dummynet rules, at the end??? > > > > Can't answer that one. > > Can't you just use pipes (or does that require dummynet) ? > > My bad. I believe there is something that has not come out clear here. Aren't pipes not > part of dummynet application? Since I am new at this, I seem a bit lost. Can I use pipes > with a kernl _not_ built with dummynet? No, my bad - just checked the manpage and you _do_ need dummynet to use pipes. Ceri -- keep a mild groove on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message