From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 15 17:47: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.npubs.com (npubs.com [207.111.208.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 097D537B42C for ; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 17:47:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: 8.12.2-(Neptune) From: "Nielsen" To: "Ilia Chipitsine" , "Bill Moran" Cc: References: Subject: Re: ipfw: DNS priority MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-Id: <20020616004700.097D537B42C@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 17:47:00 -0700 (PDT) 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 Ummm, your question has everything to do with DUMMYNET. > no, my question has nothing to do with DUMMYNET. > I was asking: "how to tell to ipfw that DNS is more IMPORTANT than other > packets ?". > > I'm not about to shape the rest of packets to 50% of interface > capacity for all the time being :) Read the man page. And then read it again, and again. Hint: make a pipe that's the size of your link, or two pipes for both directions. And then put queues in that pipe, one for priority traffic, one not. Now prioritize the queues and voila. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message