From owner-freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 13 07:35:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 794DC16A4CF for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 07:35:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from xorpc.icir.org (xorpc.icir.org [192.150.187.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03B0743D1F for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 07:35:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rizzo@icir.org) Received: from xorpc.icir.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xorpc.icir.org (8.12.11/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i9D7Zffn028704; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 00:35:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rizzo@xorpc.icir.org) Received: (from rizzo@localhost) by xorpc.icir.org (8.12.11/8.12.3/Submit) id i9D7ZfnR028703; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 00:35:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rizzo) Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 00:35:41 -0700 From: Luigi Rizzo To: "Charles R. Hunter" Message-ID: <20041013003541.B28421@xorpc.icir.org> References: <20041013041813.GH67624@curie.physics.purdue.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20041013041813.GH67624@curie.physics.purdue.edu>; from crh@physics.purdue.edu on Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 11:18:13PM -0500 cc: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bursting traffic? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: IPFW Technical Discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 07:35:42 -0000 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"