Hello everyone, I'm still sort of new to FreeBSD, and totally new to any sort of advanced networking, so bear with me please.
Here's the situation: Everything was running off of a D-Link 614 wireless router, but it was getting crushed despite very little actual bandwidth being used. My buddy and I set up the FreeBSD machine (5.2) as to act as a router, to serve the two cabled machines and D-Link. This has improved the overall responsiveness of the internet connection, but something about the D-Link is still slowing everything down. I disable the wireless and ping times drop from around 400-800ms to between 10 and 40ms. We're using WEP and MAC filtering, and use NetStumbler to check for parasites, so I don't believe it is unknown machines dragging me down. The one thing I can think of is that the two laptops used here, both are using Bit Torrent and Shareaza, and may be eating up the upstream bandwidth and/or generating some massive quantity of packets. With that in mind I've been looking into dummynet for some traffic control. I set it up and it seems to be functioning ok, but it dosen't seem to be helping. Here are my ipfw statements: ipfw add pipe 1 ip from 10.0.0.8 to any ipfw pipe 1 config bw 80Kbit/s queue 20pps delay 150ms ipfw add pipe 2 ip from any to 10.0.0.8 ipfw pipe 2 config bw 180Kbit/s queue 20pps delay 150ms ipfw add deny icmp from 10.0.0.8 to any ipfw add deny icmp from 192.168.0.0/24 to any I'm not sure if the pps is valid, but I've tried using the queue number plain and denoting Kb, so I thought I'd give packets per second a shot. The wired network is the 10.x range, while the wireless clients are under the 192 net, with 10.0.0.8 being the D-Link "WAN" interface. So far, only the icmp rule has helped, and the effect is so marginal that it could very well be some other factor. I tossed in the 192 rule while I was tired, I don't think the BSD router has any awareness of the D-Link's internal ip scheme, so correct me if I'm wrong. Any thoughts on what else I can try? Am I using the right tool for the job? Thanks in advance, Fargo _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
