From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 10 9: 8:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web10001.mail.yahoo.com (web10001.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.130.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DA1CB37B405 for ; Fri, 10 May 2002 09:08:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20020510160840.13918.qmail@web10001.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.227.168.5] by web10001.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 10 May 2002 09:08:40 PDT Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 09:08:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Walid Nehme To: freebsd questions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Dear sirs. I have 3 download satellites and a microwave connection, providing internet to a huge number of users. i want to make shapping for the traffic to control my outbound and inbound. the problem is that my outbound is 128kbit/s and when there are many users chat or send files my network stop working, is the overload. i read many documents about dummy and couldnt find any theory that help me assigning the delay and queue so that my network will work smooth, even i couldnt understand what delay and queue are used for. my firewall rules are. ipfw add pipe 1 ip from 10.20.0.0/16 to any out ipfw add pipe 2 ip from any to 10.20.0.0/16 in ipfw pipe 1 config bw 3 KBytes/s ipfw pipe 2 config bw 40 KBytes/s And tell me plz how to decide what value should i give these options if my networkcard is realtek 8139 and a p4 prossessor 1.5 G 128mb sdram. and hdd 40G seagate. NMBCLUSTERS - set the amount of network packet buffers HZ - sets the timer granularity ===== Regards. Walid Nehme ICQ:5855336 MSN:nastylid@hotmail.com my homepage http://gayana.kharkov.com/Start.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Mother's Day is May 12th! http://shopping.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message