Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 20:10:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com> To: bigtruck@ownij.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.8-Stable DummyNet Message-ID: <20030602200453.S64514@shell.inch.com> In-Reply-To: <1054583721.3edbaba959c81@webmail.ownij.com> References: <1054583721.3edbaba959c81@webmail.ownij.com>
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Have you looked at the altq stuff at all? It's a bit more sophisticated than dummynet, and can likely do what you need. Charles -- Charles Sprickman spork@inch.com On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 bigtruck@ownij.com wrote: > Hi. We just opened a gaming center and have chosen to run a FreeBsd box for > our firewall. IPFW is configured at it's very basic running natd through rl0 > and allowing any to any connections from the lan to the outer world. Natd > controls access to the lan. > > We have a 6.0 mb/s ADSL net connection for all the gaming clients to use, > however if a gamer starts downloading a file, that file takes precendence and > causes everyone's pings 'in-game' to sky rocket to unplayable levels. I have > done some reading on DummyNet which is attached at the hip with IPFW, however I > have been unsuccessful in getting it to work properly. > > I have done some research and found this site: > http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ip_dummynet/ > > After reading I became more confused than before. Should I share the link as a > whole to all 64 client machines OR should I set a fixed BW for all client > machines. Are there other websites out there that can help with this? > > Also if and when I do find a working pipe/queue config do I put it before the > natd via rl0 command or after? > > Thanks. > > > > Mike Purcell > Aka BigTrucK > Ownij Digital Entertainment > Betta Axe Somebody! > www.ownij.com > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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