Re: Traffic shaping - current best practice?

2002-09-19 Thread Patrick O'Reilly
From: Fernando Gleiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] You need a fair sharing queueing discipline, something like CBQ. I don't know if you can do that with dummynet. I know for sure ALTQ works great for this. It supports a bunch of queueing disciplines (CBQ, RED, WFQ and others). I recall seeing in the

Re: Traffic shaping - current best practice?

2002-09-19 Thread Kenneth Culver
I recall seeing in the man page that DUMMYNET has RED and GRED algorithms built in - I don't know any more detail than that though... It also Has W2FQ+ (or something like that) fair queueing, although I havn't tried to set it up in a while, last time I used it, it worked great. Ken To

Re: Traffic shaping - current best practice?

2002-09-18 Thread Byron Schlemmer
On 18 Sep 2002, Kirk Strauser wrote: I know that someone asks this question every now and then, but it's the kind of thing that can change over time, so I ask again: I want to use a FreeBSD firewall to provide bandwidth guarantees to customers. Specifically, several hosts will be sharing a

Re: Traffic shaping - current best practice?

2002-09-18 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-09-18T20:08:23Z, Byron Schlemmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Best practice? Well I'm not sure what that would be but to accomplish most of this see 'man dummynet'. Very easy to setup and highly configurable. The only problem I see is that I know you can use dummynet to limit a