Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 15:46:44 -0800 (PST) From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org> To: yusufg@outblaze.com (Yusuf Goolamabbas) Cc: freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sharing a single link evenly Message-ID: <200101222347.f0MNlPC47720@iguana.aciri.org> In-Reply-To: <20010122231143.A3564@outblaze.com> from Yusuf Goolamabbas at "Jan 22, 2001 11:11:43 pm"
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> Hi, Whilst reading Luigi's page on dummynet > > http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ip_dummynet/ > > I came across the following paragraph > > If you want all machines to share evenly a single link, you should use instead: > ipfw add queue 1 ip from any to 10.1.2.0/24 > ipfw queue 1 config weight 5 pipe 2 mask dst-ip 0x000000ff > ipfw pipe 2 config bw 300Kbit/s > > According to the ipfw man page, the value of weight ranges from 1..100. > I am trying to get some understanding as to why the value '5' implies > evenness. My first thought that the weight should be 50 but maybe I am > misunderstanding some concept or in this case could the value be > anything since we want each flow to have the same weight ? exactly - can be anything as we just want equal weight (or some preset ratio of weight). I used 5 instead of 50 (or 1, or 100 for what matters) on purpose, to avoid that people would think that the number had something to do with 50% cheers luigi ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Luigi RIZZO, luigi@iet.unipi.it . ACIRI/ICSI (on leave from Univ. di Pisa) http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . 1947 Center St, Berkeley CA 94704 Phone: (510) 666 2927 ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ipfw" in the body of the message
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