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From: Jerry Murdock <jerry_murdock@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: ipfw, dummynet, weights, and ssh?
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "FreeBSD user" <freebsd@XtremeDev.com>
To: "Sean Chittenden" <sean@chittenden.org>
Cc: "Michael Sierchio" <kudzu@tenebras.com>; "Luigi Rizzo" <rizzo@icir.org>;
<freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 6:06 AM
Subject: Re: ipfw, dummynet, weights, and ssh?


> I don't understand how this is a bandwidth reservation issue. I simply
> want ssh packets to receive priority over all other packets. Does this
> mean I have to specifically set aside say, some amount of bandwidth even
> if there are no ssh connects at the time? I don't understand the issue, I
> guess, of what's involved in giving priority to ssh packets. Is it indeed
> a bandwidth reservation issue, or is there no such thing as priority when
> dealing with packets leaving and entering an interface? Btw. I'm on a
> RADSL that's dynamic, so I have no idea at any given moment in time how
> much bandwidth I've got from QWest. From their rep, they said anywhere
> from 128kb to 1.2mb. Dunno if that's true or not, but I don't know if I
> can simply say to ipfw, "I've got a 128kb pipe, set aside 5kb at all times
> for ssh packets"
> 
> Do I have to specify a bandwidth?
> 

http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/bsdcon01/dummynet/mgp00020.txt

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