ipfw pipe bursting, not working

[Ahmed Kamal]

Hi folks,

Any thoughts on why "burst" is not having any effect? I'd really appreciate
any feedback .. Thanks

On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 12:18 AM, Ahmed Kamal <
email.ahmedkamal at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am using pfsense (hope this is not frowned upon) to configure ipfw
> limiting. I am finding that rate limiting is working great, however the
> "burst" parameter does not seem to have any effect at all. I found this bug
> open https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/3933 .. Based on the milestone,
> I'm not expecting a speedy fix.
>
> I would like to help debug whats wrong, I am pasting below the output of
> "ipfw pipe show" I am hoping a more experienced eye can spot a
> misconfiguration .. Thanks for the help
>
> # ipfw pipe show
>
> 00002:   3.000 Mbit/s    0 ms burst 50000000
> q131074  50 sl. 0 flows (1 buckets) sched 65538 weight 0 lmax 0 pri 0
> droptail
>  sched 65538 type FIFO flags 0x1 256 buckets 27 active
>     mask:  0x00 0x00000000/0x0000 -> 0xffffffff/0x0000
> BKT Prot ___Source IP/port____ ____Dest. IP/port____ Tot_pkt/bytes
> Pkt/Byte Drp
>  19 ip           0.0.0.0/0           10.0.0.19/0       13    19396  0
>  0   0
>  55 ip           0.0.0.0/0           10.0.0.55/0       51     6504  0
>  0   0
>  78 ip           0.0.0.0/0           10.0.0.78/0        1       52  0
>  0   0
>  81 ip           0.0.0.0/0           10.0.0.81/0      565   136618  0
>  0   0
>  83 ip           0.0.0.0/0           10.0.0.83/0       74    14998  0
>  0   0
>  90 ip           0.0.0.0/0           10.0.0.90/0       21     2011  0
>  0   0
> 100 ip           0.0.0.0/0          10.0.0.100/0     4465  2173866  0
>  0   0
> 101 ip           0.0.0.0/0          10.0.0.101/0     1077  1268015  0
>  0   0
> 110 ip           0.0.0.0/0          10.0.0.110/0       53     6269  0
>  0   0
> 124 ip           0.0.0.0/0          10.0.0.124/0       15     2064  0
>  0   0
> 134 ip           0.0.0.0/0          10.0.0.134/0      637   134530  0
>  0   0
> 135 ip           0.0.0.0/0          10.0.0.135/0      343    63025  0
>  0   0
> 143 ip           0.0.0.0/0          10.0.0.143/0       32     3109  0
>  0   0
> 145 ip           0.0.0.0/0          10.0.0.145/0      250   117755  0
>  0   0
> 147 ip           0.0.0.0/0          10.0.0.147/0     62037 85170555  0
>  0 347
> 150 ip           0.0.0.0/0          10.0.0.150/0      322    71834  0
>  0   0
> 152 ip           0.0.0.0/0          10.0.0.152/0      433   242323  0
>  0   0
> 156 ip           0.0.0.0/0          10.0.0.156/0      147    72501  0
>  0   0
> 174 ip           0.0.0.0/0          10.0.0.174/0     1635  1202725  0
>  0   0
> 180 ip           0.0.0.0/0          10.0.0.180/0      847   325265  0
>  0   0
> 183 ip           0.0.0.0/0          10.0.0.183/0       94    21052  0
>  0   0
> 187 ip           0.0.0.0/0          10.0.0.187/0        2      274  0
>  0   0
> 191 ip           0.0.0.0/0         54.76.66.39/0        1       40  0
>  0   0
> 193 ip           0.0.0.0/0          10.0.0.193/0      127    33068  0
>  0   0
> 197 ip           0.0.0.0/0          10.0.0.197/0        1      141  0
>  0   0
> 198 ip           0.0.0.0/0          10.0.0.198/0       58    15346  0
>  0   0
> 199 ip           0.0.0.0/0          10.0.0.199/0     4078  5472882  0
>  0   0
>