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Date:      Thu, 17 Jan 2002 15:49:22 -0800
From:      Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
To:        rick norman <rick.norman@lmco.com>
Cc:        ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dummynet byte counters
Message-ID:  <20020117154921.E99085@iguana.icir.org>
In-Reply-To: <3C472D22.A1BECD0D@lmco.com>
References:  <20020117093911.C98289@iguana.icir.org> <3C472D22.A1BECD0D@lmco.com>

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On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 11:59:30AM -0800, rick norman wrote:
> For what it's worth, I currently use a pipe with an ipfw 'in' rule to
> monitor the bw fanning in to a pipe from several variable sources.  In this
> case I'm
> interested in the total delivered from several external nodes.  I like the
> ability to drop a pipe into any data stream I choose in a potentially
> complex test bed and monitor it without perturbing it significantly.
> 
> It would seem that there might be occasions where one would want to
> monitor the data stream both coming to the queue and leaving depending on
> your test setup.

so you call for the first method, though note that if the
pipe does not have any bw limit then in and out are the same thing

	cheers
	luigi

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