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Date:      Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:31:00 +0400
From:      rihad <rihad@mail.ru>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Pipe queues
Message-ID:  <475E4AC4.4030903@mail.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20071211074353.GI11310@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
References:  <475D6FD7.2000500@mail.ru> <DCFF3417-FC01-4F2C-ACA5-03CC0881DE59@mac.com> <20071210120353.B40679@xorpc.icir.org> <475DA624.4010104@seclark.us> <475E1E4D.4090409@mail.ru> <20071211074353.GI11310@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>

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Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 09:21:17AM +0400, rihad wrote:
>> And if I _only_ want to shape IP traffic to given speed, without 
>> prioritizing anything, do I still need queues? This was the whole point.
> 
> No you don't.  I'm using pipes without queues extensively to simulate
> WANs without bothering with any prioritisation.
> 

Great! One fine point remains, though:
# ipfw pipe 1 config bw 128Kbit/s
will use a queue of 50 slots by default. What good are they for, if I 
didn't ask for queuing in the first place?



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