From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 22 22:44:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (gsi.enoreo.on.ca [209.82.52.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87B2B37B424 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 22:44:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from matt (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.42.130.87]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.10.1/8.9.2) with SMTP id e7N5ijK03821; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 01:44:46 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <004301c00cc5$419f6670$1200a8c0@matt> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Karl Hanmore" , References: Subject: Re: Simple(?) Dummynet Question Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 01:44:49 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karl Hanmore" To: Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 1:32 AM Subject: Simple(?) Dummynet Question > Good Day All, > > I have been experimenting with ipfw pipe's and DUMMYNET, and have been > very happy with the results. However, I cannot for the life of me get my > current application to function. > > My aim is to _guarentee_ 10Kbit/s of my 64Kbit/s link for ssh traffic, so > I can make sure office http/ftp does not lag my ssh connections. In order > to do this, I tried 2 sets of 2 pipes, one set restricting ALL traffic in > and out to 54Kbit/s, and the other set to restrict ssh to 10Mbit/s. > However, all I succeded in doing was limiting my overall pipe to 54Kbit, > and ssh to a max. of 10Mbit/s of the 54Kbit/s pipe. Since you seem to be able to set highwater marks for overall traffic and a subset thereof, why not make the following rules: - restrict ALL traffic to 64Kbps - restrict ALL traffic (except SSH) to 54Kbps This will guarantee 10Kbps for SSH, if not more. [ Disclaimer: I have never used DUMMYNET before, so these suggestions are purely theoretical. ] -- Matthew Emmerton GSI Computer Services +1 (800) 217-5409 (Canada) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message