From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Feb 22 19: 2:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3EABD1118D for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 19:02:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #4) id 10F86g-00049o-00; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 19:01:58 -0800 Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 19:01:55 -0800 (PST) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Mike Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Software bandwidth limiting solution In-Reply-To: <36D20301.ED62C822@ix.netcom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Mike wrote: > The $5,000 question is: > > Can I limit 10mbps flow to 5mbps via software? Or do I need to get a > router to limit bandwidth to one box? > > Mike Well, the $0,000 answer is: look at altq. It does quite a bit more than that dummynet. It was supposedly tested on 100mbs networks, though apparently you need to increase certain timers to get a smooth flow at that speed. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message