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Date:      Thu, 26 Feb 2004 18:24:42 -0500
From:      Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Aloha Guy <alohaguy123@yahoo.com>
Cc:        Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD box as router adding latency
Message-ID:  <F4BD1F87-68B2-11D8-870A-003065ABFD92@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040226225916.39208.qmail@web41305.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20040226225916.39208.qmail@web41305.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Feb 26, 2004, at 5:59 PM, Aloha Guy wrote:
> Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote:
>> There's your issue right there: if you care about the millisecond=20
>> level
>> granularity of network traffic going by this router, you ought to set
>> HZ to 1000 as documented in "man dummynet".
[ ... ]
> Knew I forgot to read something.=A0 I guess I forgot all about =
dummynet=20
> is the one doing the traffic shaping as I never used traffic shaping=20=

> on the other boxes when they were used as both Ethernet and T1=20
> routers.=A0 I've always had NMBCLUSERS set to 32768 which I assume is=20=

> fine.

Thats a lot of NMBCLUSTERS, but if you've got the memory you should be=20=

okay.

> Also, is there a way to use two NICs like a xl0 and a fxp0 and bond=20
> them together with just one IP?

Yes, netgraph.  See "man ng_one2many"....

--=20
-Chuck



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