From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 26 11:29:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from iguana.aciri.org (iguana.aciri.org [192.150.187.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47A9537B401 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 11:29:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rizzo@localhost) by iguana.aciri.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f9QIPlC68093; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 11:25:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rizzo) Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 11:25:47 -0700 From: Luigi Rizzo To: rick norman Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dummynet stats Message-ID: <20011026112547.B67858@iguana.aciri.org> References: <3BD99BE8.F02EA873@lmco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3BD99BE8.F02EA873@lmco.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 10:22:48AM -0700, rick norman wrote: > Hi, > > I seem to get inconsistent outputs from the same dummynet > stat query. Following is the output from two different queries : > > bash-2.05$ > bash-2.05$ ipfw pipe 3 show > 00003: unlimited 0 ms 2048 B 0 queues (1 buckets) droptail > mask: 0x00 0x00000000/0x0000 -> 0x00000000/0x0000 > bash-2.05$ > bash-2.05$ ipfw pipe 3 show > 00003: unlimited 0 ms 2048 B 1 queues (1 buckets) droptail > mask: 0x00 0x00000000/0x0000 -> 0x00000000/0x0000 > BKT Prot ___Source IP/port____ ____Dest. IP/port____ Tot_pkt/bytes > Pkt/Byte Drp > 0 icmp 127.0.31.1/0 127.0.31.1/0 3139 1695060 0 > 0 0 > bash-2.05$ > > The only difference between the two dumps is that a flood ping > was stopped and then restated. > In both cases, the same ruleset and dummynet pipes were in effect. I > am using flood pings for a data stream in both cases. The first dump > is after a flush and reinstallation of the pipe rules. The data stream > was > running while the rules were being installed. The ping was then stopped > > and restarted followed by the second stat query. My question is why > didn't > the stats reflect the stream until it had been stopped and restarted ? i actually doubt that any traffic went throught he pipe before the first "ipfw pipe show" or you would have seen it. packets are accounted for immediately as they go through. cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message