Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:36:47 +0100 From: Chris Elsworth <chris@shagged.org> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ipfw, pipes, and weighting Message-ID: <20010723133647.A48130@shagged.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10107221806560.4917-100000@athena.uniserve.ca>; from tom@uniserve.com on Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 06:09:46PM -0700 References: <20010723012459.A1197@shagged.org> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10107221806560.4917-100000@athena.uniserve.ca>
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On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 06:09:46PM -0700, Tom wrote:
>
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Chris Elsworth wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 05:20:14PM -0700, Tom wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Chris Elsworth wrote:
> > >
> > > ...
> > > > What doesn't work is the weighting itself. I saw absolutely no difference
> > > > whether I had those rules in or not.
> > >
> > > What kind of network interface are you using? The way that you seem to
> > > be configuring dummynet, is as custom priority queuing system. That is
> > > only effective, if there are packets in the queue to sort by your
> > > priorities. That will be most effective if you do that on the slowest
> > > interface in the path.
> >
> > The machine in question is a gateway between a 100M LAN and a 1Mbit
> > upstream line. Obviously I can't control stuff coming down the outside
> > line, but I can control my outgoing bandwidth, so thats what I'm trying to
> > do. The outside NIC is an fxp0, inside is rl0. I was assuming the way I
> > did it, it would catch anything going between the two interfaces with the
> > src/dst IP I specified?
>
> I'm assuming you have some kind of router or bridge connecting the
> outside ethernet to the 1Mbps line. You should probably rate shape your
> outbound bandwidth to 1Mbps, to allow your priorities to be effective.
> Otherwise most of the queuing will occur on the router/bridge, or in the
> WAN network itself.
Ok, so using the rules I had before will work if I put a "bw 1Mbit/s" on
the pipe config line? I'll try it tonight :)
Cheers :)
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