Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 12:52:10 +0200 (MET DST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: lconrad@Go2France.com (Len Conrad) Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dummynet -> rate limiting Message-ID: <199907181052.MAA18101@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.56.19990718124838.02eaa9d0@go2france.com> from "Len Conrad" at Jul 18, 99 12:59:44 pm
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> Luigi > With dummynet you can achieve almost the same effect by setting a > pipe with a very low bit rate, and yes, this will penalize big packets > > But if we could filter and rate-limit by protocol type, ie, icmp, smtp, > ftp, then we could slice our pipe to fit our needs (icmp very low, smtp > low, http hi, ftp wherever). that's exactly what you can do with ipfw -- write reasonably detailted rulesets to filter on protocols, port, addresses, flags or not, etc. and use different limitations (= dummynet pipes) for the various things. I'll stay out of the bw-mgr/dummynet discussion since dummynet is my (third) baby and have never used bw-mgr. cheers luigi > I'm trying to decide between ET's bw-mgr or dummynet. > > Anybody here leaning on ET's bw-mgr in T1 and better throughputs with lotsa > rules? > > Len > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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