From owner-freebsd-ipfw Thu Jan 17 15:57:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Received: from iguana.icir.org (iguana.icir.org [192.150.187.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72D9837B402 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 15:57:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rizzo@localhost) by iguana.icir.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id g0HNvMh01027; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 15:57:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rizzo) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 15:57:22 -0800 From: Luigi Rizzo To: rick norman Cc: ipfw@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dummynet byte counters Message-ID: <20020117155722.A978@iguana.icir.org> References: <20020117093911.C98289@iguana.icir.org> <3C472D22.A1BECD0D@lmco.com> <20020117154921.E99085@iguana.icir.org> <3C476444.F8297B8B@lmco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C476444.F8297B8B@lmco.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Sender: owner-freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 03:54:44PM -0800, rick norman wrote: > Actually I would like to see counters on in and out, though I can > easily adapt to whatever you do. the first method includes all -- in, in-transit, drops and by difference you can compute the out luigi > Rick > > Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ipfw" in the body of the message