From owner-freebsd-net Fri Jul 19 17:36:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B499937B400; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 17:36:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mirapoint2.brutele.be (mirapoint2.brutele.be [212.68.193.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C578E43E58; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 17:36:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jylefort@brutele.be) Received: from gateway.lefort.net ([213.189.162.78]) by mirapoint2.brutele.be (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id BBQ51096; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 01:59:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from jsite.lefort.net (jsite.lefort.net [192.168.1.2]) by gateway.lefort.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B7231539A; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 01:59:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: from jsite.lefort.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jsite.lefort.net (Postfix) with SMTP id CD4E82304B; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 01:59:16 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 01:59:16 +0200 From: Jean-Yves Lefort To: Benjamin Franks Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: giving priority to udp over tcp? Message-Id: <20020720015916.682d49fd.jylefort@brutele.be> In-Reply-To: <20020718220521.F46506-100000@crimea.dzhan.com> References: <20020718220521.F46506-100000@crimea.dzhan.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 22:12:53 -0700 (PDT) Benjamin Franks wrote: > I'm using FreeBSD 4.5 and have custom applications that send receive > network packets over both tcp and udp sockets. For the sake of an > example, assume that the udp traffic is always constant, but the tcp > traffic density changes. During times of heavy tcp traffic density, > will udp messages which have been sent to the out queue typically wait > in the queue longer before being sent out? Does tcp traffic get some > sort of priority? If so, is there a way I can de-prioritize tcp > traffic and up the priority of the udp traffic to make certain all the > queued udp messages get out as soon as possible...? sysctl variables? > does it > depend on the network card driver, or perhaps i'm imagining something > that isn't there and the two traffic types are totally isolated! ;) man dummynet Regards, Jean-Yves Lefort -- Jean-Yves Lefort jylefort@brutele.be http://void.adminz.be/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message