From owner-freebsd-net Sun Jul 18 4: 0:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mail.go2france.com (go2france.com [209.51.193.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9EF951502C for ; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 04:00:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lconrad@Go2France.com) Received: from superviseur [62.161.63.210] by mail.go2france.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-4.03) id AF55B0D01B4; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 05:33:09 EDT Message-Id: <4.2.0.56.19990718124838.02eaa9d0@go2france.com> X-Sender: lconrad@go2france.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.56 (Beta) Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 13:00:03 +0200 To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: Re: dummynet -> rate limiting In-Reply-To: <199907180527.HAA17810@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> References: <199907172241.SAA24085@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Luigi > With dummynet you can achieve almost the same effect by setting a pipe with a very low bit rate, and yes, this will penalize big packets But if we could filter and rate-limit by protocol type, ie, icmp, smtp, ftp, then we could slice our pipe to fit our needs (icmp very low, smtp low, http hi, ftp wherever). I'm trying to decide between ET's bw-mgr or dummynet. Anybody here leaning on ET's bw-mgr in T1 and better throughputs with lotsa rules? Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message