Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 03:17:28 +0200 From: Walter Hop <walter@binity.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Fair bandwidth sharing with ipfw? Message-ID: <19743634202.20010928031728@binity.com>
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Hi all, I've used dummynet pipes for bandwidth management, which is working out pretty well. Still there is a scenario I haven't dealt with: I want to connect my apartment to an ADSL line (256k/1024kbit) through a FreeBSD natd+ipfw router, and share the bandwidth fairly between the housemates, so that: 1] When only one of the workstations is busy, it can use 90% of the available bandwidth. 2] When multiple workstations are up/downloading, the available bandwidth is divided more or less equally between the workstations. Now in many situations, this balance will appear automatically; but I noticed by tcpdumping that sometimes one station occupies most of the bandwidth while other machines are all stalled -- their transfer rates get back to normal levels when a busy machine is ipfw'ed down. Is this possible with ipfw (ipfw queues perhaps)? Thanks. :) walter -- Buy goods, earn cash, and shop 'til you drop in our member stores. walter@binity.com | +31 6 24290808 | http://www.binity.com/~walter/pgp/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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