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Date:      Tue, 27 Jan 1998 10:03:23 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        John R Sconiers <JR-Sconiers@neiu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: limiting isdn pipe
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980127095926.16462D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.980122130956.1351A-100000@orion.neiu.edu>

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On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, John R Sconiers wrote:

> Hi.  I just want to ask one quick question.  I do 128k voice over data
> with an isdn router.  I connect 3 boxes behind the router (two freebsd,
> one windows).  Everything works ok but i have a problem.  If my machines
> try to do something at once i get slow response times because the pipe is
> being completely taken up.  Is there a way i can limit that in my frreebsd
> machines by using something in the configuration file.

Unfortunately, no, but your problem is that you have too little bandwidth
for what you're trying to do.  If you're using only one B channel for
data, you're only getting 64Kbps, which will flood very easily (it's only
.5% of the bandwidth provided by standard Ethernet).  Bonding the channels
gets you 128Kbps, which is still 1% of Ethernet. 

I believe there is some rate-limiting software available commercially.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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