ipfw + dummynet: bandwidth limiting not working

[Brian K. West]

Or atleast number your rules... so that it falls after the pipe config.

And check out sysctl net.inet.ip.fw.one_pass

bkw

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sten Daniel Sørsdal" <sten.daniel.sorsdal at wan.no>
To: "Jason Kocol" <mrkocol at cv.org>; <freebsd-ipfw at freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 12:22 PM
Subject: RE: ipfw + dummynet: bandwidth limiting not working


> I am running FreeBSD 4.8 STABLE and am trying to use dummynet
> with ipfw to
> limit bandwidth on my DSL connection.  I have added the rules
> for dummynet
> to my existing firewall rules in rc.firewall (which are
> pretty open as you
> can see) in the last two lines below:
>
> ipfw -f flush
> ipfw add divert natd all from any to any via vx0
> ipfw add pass all from any to any
> ipfw pipe 1 config bw 128K
> ipfw add pipe 1 tcp from x.x.x.x to any
>
> (x.x.x.x being my public IP address, and vx0 in line 2 being
> the interface
> for this address)
>
> By those last two lines I would expect the outbound/inbound
> traffic to be
> limited to 128Kbps, yet I am still able to transfer data at my normal
> broadband speeds (1.5Mb/768Kb).
>
> Anyone have any idea why this is not working the way I'd expect it to?
>

Remove the line that says 'ipfw add pass all from any to any' and it should
work.

- Sten
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