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Date:      Tue, 04 Oct 2005 10:46:52 -0300
From:      Patrick Tracanelli <eksffa@freebsdbrasil.com.br>
To:        ipfw@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: layer2 filtering and dummynet, bw reduced by half
Message-ID:  <434287CC.5000202@freebsdbrasil.com.br>
In-Reply-To: <20051003093801.B92958@xorpc.icir.org>
References:  <4341575C.8080409@freebsdbrasil.com.br> <20051003091024.A92958@xorpc.icir.org> <43415BFB.1050800@freebsdbrasil.com.br> <20051003093801.B92958@xorpc.icir.org>

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Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> see the ipfw manpage near the eginning with the graph
> showing the packet flow.
> 
> "layer2" means the rule matches only on layer2.
> "not layer2" matches only on layer 3.
> if you don't put anything, it matches both layer2 and layer3.
> 
> luigi

Rizzo,

Thank you a lot for clearing it up.

I tried with pipes and queues and explicitly enforcing only layer3 did 
the work. Very good, thanks.

-- 
Patrick Tracanelli



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