On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Sami Halabi <[email protected]> wrote:
> hi, > I need to set some QoS on traffic. > I use ipfw & dummynet, all my search to cane to use queue with weight, > however its said that this method not prioritize traffic rather that > splitting the pipe according to the weights (if i read correctly should sum > to 100). > > dummynet does not implement priority queues, but uses a variant of weighted fair queueing - WFQ2+ - "fair" because queues with lower weights are guaranteed to have their traffic move. You misread the docs on the weight - each queue may have a weight from 1-100. One sublety is that your pipe capacity must be slightly less than the available bandwidth, since queue weights only take effect when there is contention. - M _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
