>Seems to me that spending money on a real packetshaper would be a >better investment than donating to compromise on the free stuff (not >that I'd want to discourage anyone from contributing to FreeBSD >generally).
>Your problem is that at high traffic levels you need to reduce traffic >flows, not just delay it as dummynet does. The entire point of traffic >shaping is to smooth out your traffic flows; not to make it so choppy >that you have packets sitting in a transmit queue for 1/2 millisecond >in addition to the dummynet delays. While dummynet may not be dropping >packets, you have packets being dropped in TCP stacks throughout your >customer base, most likely. >Barney Packetshaper? It can't work over 300M/s. _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
