On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 07:42:25PM -0300, AT Matik wrote: > On Wednesday 12 April 2006 19:13, Patrick Tracanelli wrote: > > Also, what about some sort of algorith more similar to "plr" for "prob" > > action? As my understanding prob is really a probability, which does not > > mean say 33% of the packets will match (while plr says it will match - > > and drop the packet), it means 33% of probability, right? This would be > > different of 33% of matching rate. Lets think of a "rate" option for > > "matching rate", a > > > > "probably" not a good choice to generate packet-loss when trying kind of load > balance > > prob generates random rate (fwd in this case) > plr generates random packet _loss_ rate > > I think the latter option create artificial kind of bw limit
yes the two share only a math equation. even if they behaved the same (match v. drop), the two wouldn't be equivalent because you get all of dummynet's queueing/dropping characteristics. -- bill _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ipfw To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
