4.8-Stable DummyNet

[Charles Sprickman]

Have you looked at the altq stuff at all?  It's a bit more sophisticated
than dummynet, and can likely do what you need.

Charles

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Charles Sprickman
spork at inch.com


On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 bigtruck at ownij.com wrote:

> Hi.  We just opened a gaming center and have chosen to run a FreeBsd box for
> our firewall.  IPFW is configured at it's very basic running natd through rl0
> and allowing any to any connections from the lan to the outer world.  Natd
> controls access to the lan.
>
> We have a 6.0 mb/s ADSL net connection for all the gaming clients to use,
> however if a gamer starts downloading a file, that file takes precendence and
> causes everyone's pings 'in-game' to sky rocket to unplayable levels.  I have
> done some reading on DummyNet which is attached at the hip with IPFW, however I
> have been unsuccessful in getting it to work properly.
>
> I have done some research and found this site:
> http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ip_dummynet/
>
> After reading I became more confused than before.  Should I share the link as a
> whole to all 64 client machines OR should I set a fixed BW for all client
> machines.  Are there other websites out there that can help with this?
>
> Also if and when I do find a working pipe/queue config do I put it before the
> natd via rl0 command or after?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> Mike Purcell
> Aka BigTrucK
> Ownij Digital Entertainment
> Betta Axe Somebody!
> www.ownij.com
>
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