From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 18 18:43: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from comnet.ca (comnet.ca [216.191.240.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8D1B37B403 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 18:43:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter (shellsandhosting.com [64.39.176.9]) by comnet.ca (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f9J1ggd17491; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 21:42:43 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <00dc01c1583f$7daba770$0200000a@critter> From: "webdesigns COMNET" To: "Patrick O'Reilly" Cc: References: Subject: Re: ftp hogging bandwidth Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 21:43:43 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 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 On that page, I read: ipfw queue 1 config pipe 1 weight 30 mask dst-ip 0x000000ff (ssh connections may use 100% of available bandwidth) What does tha value "weight 30" mean exactly? I'm not to clear with the man explanation: weight weight Specifies the weight to be used for flows matching this queue. The weight must be in the range 1..100, and defaults to 1. Jason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick O'Reilly" To: "Weldon S Godfrey 3" ; "Joshua Holland" Cc: Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 4:09 AM Subject: RE: ftp hogging bandwidth > Yes - look into ipfw, and specifically its DUMMYNET feature. > > Check this in the question list archive for some more details: > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1160624+0+current/freebsd-quest > ions > > Patrick. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Weldon S > > Godfrey 3 > > Sent: 17 October 2001 19:56 > > To: Joshua Holland > > Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: Re: ftp hogging bandwidth > > > > > > > > You mean the machine is bogging down or your outside connection is getting > > bogged down? > > > > I think the ftp session is taking your entire fractional T. I don't think > > it would be slowing down your machine too much. > > > > IPFW I *think* has rate shaping ability. You might be able to add rules > > to set ftp to a certain bandwidth. > > > > I am now going beyond my experience, I haven't tried to rateshape on a > > freebsd box yet. > > > > > > On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Joshua Holland wrote: > > > > > I think they were ftp-ing through our box to an off site location. > > > > > > >I assuming that someone is ftping to a ftp server that is also your > > > >nat/firewall box? > > > > > > > >One really cheezy way would be this: > > > > > > > >Have 2 nics on your server > > > > > > > >1 nic has the IP address for ftp. In DNS you can make that IP > > be whatever > > > >you want (ftp.localhost, ftp.biststeam.net, etc) > > > > > > > >the other nic is doing the rest of your internal lan stuff > > > > > > > >and since you are doing nat, you might have a 3rd nic for WAN. > > > > > > > > > > > >if you don't have a 100Mb shared hub, or want to lower the ftp > > bandwidth > > > >further for some reason, you could force the dedicated ftp nic to 10Mb > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Joshua Holland wrote: > > > > > > > >> Hello, > > > >> > > > >> I help administer a FreeBSD machine that runs nat, dhcpd, mail and > > > >> web servers for an organization with about 75 desktop clients. They > > > >> have a 256k fractional T1. We have noticed the machine bogging down > > > >> sometimes (people complaining of extremely slow web page > > loading, and > > > >> when I ssh in, very slow response). Top shows less than 1% of CPU > > > >> being used. This last time, it seems someone was ftp-ing a 100MB > > > >> file, and when they terminated the transfer, everything was fast > > > >> again. Is there anyway to prevent one client or process > > from hogging > > > >> all that bandwidth? > > > >> > > > >> Joshua Holland. > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message