Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 20:23:13 -0500 From: Mike <phate1@ix.netcom.com> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Software bandwidth limiting solution Message-ID: <36D20301.ED62C822@ix.netcom.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9902221618010.2053-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
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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 Tom wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Feb 1999 phate1@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I'm running 3.0-Stable. > > > > I'm trying to limit bandwidth to one of the boxes to to below 5Mbps (it's > > eating up a full 10Mbps lan).. > > Specifically just limit port 80 (web traffic) so I can telnet/ftp without > > any lag.. > > > > I tried dummynet, but it only seems to queue incoming packets, which results > > in me running out of my mbufs (8192 total), and the system reboots. > > > > Can a software solution handle this? Or would I need something hardware > > based? > > Well, there is the altq package. Not sure if it works on 3.x though. > altq has lots more functionality. I'm not even sure why altq wasn't > imported instead of dummynet. Search the archives. > > Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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