Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 01:32:29 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: "Sam Zamarripa" <samz@oz.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: PPP Nat Bandwidth Sharing Message-ID: <200011080132.eA81WTT94120@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from "Sam Zamarripa" <samz@oz.net> of "Fri, 27 Oct 2000 20:30:15 PDT." <002401c0408f$639eb3e0$0200000a@sam>
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> Hi. I was wondering if this is even possible or I am looking for too much. > > I use a 56K dialup connection. I am using PPP Nat to share with a LAN. > Bandwidth sharing doesn't seem to be too efficient. For example if Machine-1 > on the LAN is doing a major download of a compressed file and getting near > full speed of 5.6K/sec, if Machine-2 starts web browsing or a download > itself..they can barely pull 1K/sec. It would seem to me that it should > start throttling the bandwidth back so both machines are getting about > 2.8K/sec each evenly. Is this possible? > > I thought maybe using DUMMNET and the Weight command would work as the > example shows on this page - http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ip_dummynet > > But it didn't make much difference. Is there a way to efficiently share > bandwidth or am I just looking for too much out of this? I am using FreeBSD > 4.1.1-STABLE You could try ``set urgent tcp +80'' in your ppp profile. Alternatively, you could enable fair queueing (WFQ) and ``set ifqueue 0'' in ppp.conf. -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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