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Date:      Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:58:10 +0000
From:      Ceri <setantae@submonkey.net>
To:        Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: IPFW/Dummynet - Internet Access
Message-ID:  <20020227125810.GA4724@rhadamanth>
In-Reply-To: <20020227114913.GE23054@ns2.wananchi.com>
References:  <20020227104755.GC23054@ns2.wananchi.com> <20020227110513.GA4011@rhadamanth> <20020227114913.GE23054@ns2.wananchi.com>

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On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 02:49:13PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> * Ceri <setantae@submonkey.net> [20020227 14:06]: wrote:

> > You can use VLANs with just one switch.
> 
> I have to convince our
> network engineer here that this can be done.
> He asserts that this can not be done and quotes the following
> URL - http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/lan/cat6000/sft_6_1/configgd/vlans.htm

Any section in particular on that document (it's rather big) ?

> > > QUESTION 2: I've already run IPFW on a FreeBSD box and while I am new to ipfw, I
> > > see it's already running fine, bar for the tuning that it will require to achieve
> > > the goal. If I want to do bandwidth limiting using dummynet, using the instructions
> > > at www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ , at what point in rc.ipfw do I introduce the
> > > dummynet rules, at the end???
> > 
> > Can't answer that one.
> > Can't you just use pipes (or does that require dummynet) ?
> 
> My bad. I believe there is something that has not come out clear here. Aren't pipes not
> part of dummynet application? Since I am new at this, I seem a bit lost. Can I use pipes
> with a kernl _not_ built with dummynet?

No, my bad - just checked the manpage and you _do_ need dummynet to use pipes.

Ceri

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