From owner-freebsd-net Sun Sep 27 12:00:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA29228 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 12:00:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (spinner.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA29214 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 12:00:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spinner.netplex.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1/Spinner) with ESMTP id CAA13841; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 02:57:37 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@spinner.netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <199809271857.CAA13841@spinner.netplex.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Allen Smith" cc: ark@eltex.ru, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, kev@lab321.ru, mike@smith.net.au, net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Packet/traffic shapper ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 26 Sep 1998 02:07:58 -0400." <9809260207.ZM14494@beatrice.rutgers.edu> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 02:57:37 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Allen Smith" wrote: > On Sep 21, 5:52am, ark@eltex.ru (possibly) wrote: > > > ALTQ is damn ugly. I'd prefer to see something like dummynet interacting > > with IPFilter instead of ipfw. > > Not to get back into the debate regarding ALTQ's "ugliness", the > primary thing I was looking at ALTQ for was the RED (Random Early > Detection) capability of ALTQ, so that I can get the lower-priority > TCP streams to drop back their bandwidth when they're getting too > much. I've never seen the ALTQ code or implementation, so I'm commenting in ignorance.. Having got that out of the way, it was explained to me the importance of being able to apply different 'shaping' procedures to different IP protocols. ie: RED (I was told 'Random Early Drop') for tcp, and some other rate limit function for udp. I'd really love to see an implementation that does this, if they don't already. > -Allen Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message