Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 23:31:01 +0100 From: "Daniel Eriksson" <daniel_k_eriksson@telia.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Dummynet traffic shaping question (TCP-ACK prioritization) Message-ID: <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAA0VcX9IoJqUaXPS8MjT1PdsKAAAAQAAAAlflTZzI0HkiBULGYdTfDxwEAAAAA@telia.com>
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(question at the end)
I have a server that sits on a medium speed link (10Mbit, full duplex) that
under certain network loads starts to show what looks like TCP-ACK delay
problems. At full upstream saturation the downstream speed is reduced.
I modded the firewall rules to prioritize TCP-ACKs into one queue and all
other outgoing traffic into another queue. Something like this:
${fwcmd} pipe 1 config
${fwcmd} queue 1 config pipe 1 weight 100
${fwcmd} queue 2 config pipe 1 weight 1
# Route all outgoing TCP traffic with the ACK flag through the high priority
queue
${fwcmd} add queue 1 tcp from any to any out via ${ext_if} tcpflags ack
iplen 0-80
# Route all other (established) outgoing TCP traffic through the low
priority queue
${fwcmd} add queue 2 tcp from any to any out via ${ext_if} established
Looking at the output of 'ipfw show' seems to indicate the queues are
getting the packets they should get:
00100 1738731 69778250 queue 1 tcp from any to any out via em0 tcpflags
ack iplen 0-80
00200 5133634 7689253633 queue 2 tcp from any to any out via em0 established
Even though everything looks OK, the results have not been what I hoped for
(same problem with downstream speed during full upstream saturation).
My question is: Do I need to tell the pipe how fat it is (${fwcmd} pipe 1
config bw 10Mbit/s) to get the queue prioritization to work properly, or is
it OK to leave out the speed and just let it run full tilt?
/Daniel Eriksson
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