From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 3 12:25:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B858C418D for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 12:25:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA58843; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 15:21:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 15:21:30 -0500 (EST) From: Steve Hovey To: Dan Nelson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Limiting bandwidth In-Reply-To: <20000203094040.B60799@dan.emsphone.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > add "options DUMMYNET" to your kernel and recompile. Then do something > like > > ipfw pipe 1 config bw 100kbytes/sec > ipfw add 100 pipe 1 ip from any to any out via fxp0 > ipfw pipe 2 config bw 100kbytes/sec > ipfw add 101 pipe 2 ip from any to any in via fxp0 > I did this - checked the man pages - and soon as I do it, at 512kbits, a ping out that port drops 80% of packets, and reports enourmous ping times on the packets that do get thru. Am I missing something I need to do (like set buffers) or is this just a symptom that the end user NEEDs to be throttled! (ie they are piggin up the wire) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message