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From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>
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Subject: Re: ipfw (dummynet) adds delay, but not configured to do so
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On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Sebastian Mellmann wrote:

 > > Paired pipes will speed things up.  Maybe not noticeably for pings (call 
 > > and response work half-duplex) but for esp TCP it could be considerable.
 > 
 > How does this "pairing" of pipes work?
 > Couldn't find any documentation about it?

Perhaps 'paired' isn't the best term for it, but see the ipfw(8) 
'TRAFFIC SHAPING' section for the rationale and relevant examples.

 > Actually I'm using 'in recv' and 'out xmit', but it wasn't applied in
 > this example, but thanks for the hint again (you already mentioned that
 > on the freebsd-question mailing list I think ;-)).

Sorry :)

 > For now we will stick to the delay "issue" and see how it affects our
 > results.

Much more scientific than changing everything at once ..

cheers, Ian