dummynet issues

Julian Elischer julian at elischer.org
Tue Dec 1 20:48:40 UTC 2009


Kevin Smith wrote:
> Oleg Bulyzhin wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:58:55PM -0500, Ben Kelly wrote:
>>> I actually have not measured my bandwidth to validate dummynet.  I have simply observed these messages repeating in my log:
>>>
>>>   dummynet: OUCH! pipe should have been idle!
>>>
>>> Under normal conditions I don't really need the dummynet rules to shape traffic for my configuration to work, so it has not been a high priority for me yet.  Do you see the log messages?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> - Ben
>> It seems i've found the problem. Please test attached patch (it's for R8.0
>> sources and include r198845). I'm interested in some feedback:
>> 1) does it solve 'OUCH' messages problem?
>> 2) does it solve bandwidth problem (if there was any)?
>>
>>
> The patch fixes the problem: now it seems all ok, no more "OUCH"
> messages and pipe bandwidth limiting works again.
> Thank you very much, Oleg!!
> Best regards,
>

  this should be made an errata item for 8.0



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