minimum bandwidth per connection with dummynet ?

Peter Jeremy peterjeremy at optushome.com.au
Fri May 23 22:13:10 UTC 2008


On 2008-May-23 02:47:30 -0700, Juri Mianovich <juri_mian at yahoo.com> wrote:
>- is there a simple setting that says "allocate
>bandwidth evenly between all connections in a
>saturated pipe" ?

TCP does this automatically.

>- alternatively, is there a minimum speed per
>connection that I can establish for a dummynet pipe ? 

Not that I can see - you can use the 'mask' parameter to define a
maximum per-connection rate.  I don't believe there's any way to
redirect "overflow" traffic though.  You could probably write a
divert(4) application to do the shaping you require.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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