From owner-freebsd-net Sat Jul 17 17:11:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from gw.caamora.com.au (jonath5.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.41.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55B6714C32 for ; Sat, 17 Jul 1999 17:11:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon@gw.caamora.com.au) Received: (from jon@localhost) by gw.caamora.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA00974; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 10:11:20 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jon) Message-ID: <19990718101120.A961@caamora.com.au> Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 10:11:20 +1000 From: jonathan michaels To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dummynet -> rate limiting Mail-Followup-To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , freebsd-net@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Dag-Erling Smorgrav on Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 08:10:29PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD gw.caamora.com.au 2.2.7-RELEASE i386 X-Mood: i'm alive, if it counts Organisation: Caamora, PO Box 144, Rosebery NSW 1445 Australia Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 08:10:29PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > What do people think about adding rate limiting to dummynet? It would > work just like bandwidth limiting, except the limit would be in > packets or kilopackets per second (pps, kpps) instead of bits or bytes > per second. as i understand the difference twix bandwidth and rate limiting, i think it would be a really good idea and wirth the adding, only probelm is that i'm not a programmer. > I'd also love to be able to type 'kbps' or 'kBps' instead of 'Kbit/s' > or 'KByte/s', respectively. both would be great, then its a matter of personal preferance, mine is for the kbit/kbytes per sec regards jonathan -- =============================================================================== Jonathan Michaels PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia =========================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message