FreeBSD Traffic Shaping

Mel fbsd.questions at rachie.is-a-geek.net
Wed Apr 2 12:43:25 UTC 2008


On Wednesday 02 April 2008 14:21:38 freebsd at top-consulting.net wrote:

> Also, the reason for this need is that some services use
> burst-bandwidth and I have many peaks and lows throughout the day.
> This means that my carrier who bills me by the 95th percentile is
> having a field day.

He bills by the second or average hour like most people? It's not as black and 
white as it seems - you also get higher average when the number of 
connections increases, not just the bandwidth they consume.

I think you'll find that bursts are best counteracted like this:
http://www.probsd.net/pf/index.php/Hednod%27s_HFSC_explained#Tips.2FIdeas

This seperates 'downloads' from 'webpages', 'normal mails' from 'attachments' 
and you can then tune accordingly, if you have/get some graph.

-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.


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