From owner-freebsd-net Sun Jul 18 4:18:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from orbitel.bg (ns.orbitel.bg [195.24.32.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 144FD1502C for ; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 04:18:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sstefanov@orbitel.bg) Received: (qmail 8883 invoked from network); 18 Jul 1999 11:16:52 -0000 Received: from pool3.orbitel.bg (HELO orbitel.bg) (stefan@195.24.32.131) by cow100.orbitel.bg with SMTP; 18 Jul 1999 11:16:52 -0000 Message-ID: <3791B81C.8EE31AC3@orbitel.bg> Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 14:18:52 +0300 From: Stefan Stefanov Organization: Orbitel Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5-15 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Len Conrad Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dummynet -> rate limiting References: <199907172241.SAA24085@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <4.2.0.56.19990718124838.02eaa9d0@go2france.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Len Conrad wrote: > > Luigi > With dummynet you can achieve almost the same effect by setting a > pipe with a very low bit rate, and yes, this will penalize big packets > > But if we could filter and rate-limit by protocol type, ie, icmp, smtp, > ftp, then we could slice our pipe to fit our needs (icmp very low, smtp > low, http hi, ftp wherever). > > I'm trying to decide between ET's bw-mgr or dummynet. > > Anybody here leaning on ET's bw-mgr in T1 and better throughputs with lotsa > rules? Just a warning I have been trying to use ET's products since a year and a half. I must say they are all CRAP! Simply there is no technical support for them... Mr. Denis Baah even called me and my colegue "fag", when we were trying to convince him, that his drivers are misbihaving. Even he called Alan Cox - "stupid"... For the Bandwidth Manager - it's quick and ugly hack like thing. sometimes it works, sometimes it does not. I have never had any consecutive equal results. And it makes a rock solid FreeBSD box very unstable indeed. I strongly suggets you NOT to buy their products. I would suggets you use dummynet, or ALTQ - Alternative Queing for FreeBSD. They all work like charm... PS: As from your message I think CBQ - a queing discipline from the ALTQ package is the way to go. -- Best Regards, Stefan Stefanov Orbitel Ltd. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message