Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 00:35:41 -0700 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> To: "Charles R. Hunter" <crh@physics.purdue.edu> Cc: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bursting traffic? Message-ID: <20041013003541.B28421@xorpc.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <20041013041813.GH67624@curie.physics.purdue.edu>; from crh@physics.purdue.edu on Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 11:18:13PM -0500 References: <20041013041813.GH67624@curie.physics.purdue.edu>
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On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 11:18:13PM -0500, Charles R. Hunter wrote: > > Hello! > > I'm pretty new to ipfw with respect to using dummynet pipes and > queues for traffic shaping. For the life of me, I can't figure out > how to do something I want: > > How to force my interface to burst its traffic. you cannot do that with dummynet. it is designed to smooth traffic out of an interface, not burst it. cheers luigi > That is, I want a pipe that has a delay of A and > a bandwidth of B but will stall itself at the *end* of > a count C of slots/bytes/whatever for a defined waiting period D > and then continue. > > Do I want a configurable queue delay maybe? > > The ipfw/dummynet docs talk about the delay caused by a deep queue > but doesn't mention a way to explicitly set a delay like you > can for pipes. > > Is there any way to accompish this with multiple pipes and queues > perhaps? > > Thanks, > > Charles > -- > Charles R. Hunter > Director, Physics Computer Network > Purdue University crh XatX physics.purdue.edu > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ipfw > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ipfw-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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