On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 11:22:10AM -0800, Arone Silimantia wrote: > Hello, > > I currently implement a dummynet rate limit, after boot up, with this > sequence: > > sysctl -w net.inet.ip.fw.one_pass=0 > ipfw pipe 1 config bw 10Mbit/s > ipfw add 10000 pipe 1 all from any to any > > Easy. > > My question is, if I want to change the rate from 10 Mbit/s to 20 Mbit/s, do > I just reissue the 'ipfw pipe' command: > > ipfw pipe 1 config bw 20Mbit/s > > while leaving the ipf rule in place ? Or should I tear down rule 10000 > first, and tear down the pipe, and start from scratch ? > > Is it safe to just reissue the pipe command on the fly like that ?
Just changing the pipe config works for me on a mirror server that updates the max inbound bandwidth hourly. -- Brooks
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