On Saturday, December 13, 2014, Brett Glass <br...@lariat.net <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','br...@lariat.net');>> wrote:
> At 10:35 AM 12/12/2014, John Nielsen wrote: > > Is there a reason you can't use a separate pipe for each direction? >> > > We want to limit the total amount of bandwidth consumed, based on the > formula 2U + D <= L. If we used two pipes, there would be no way to keep > track of the sum. > > What I need (and am not sure if DUMMYNET can currently supply) is a pipe > that allows you to feed it a packet and say, "Count this X times toward the > bandwidth limit." > No, as it is now dummynet cannot do what you ask. It would be a one-line change in the kernel, plus the part to handle passing the extra parameter (we could call it "cost") to the queue's configuration. As usual, the UI is 10+ times bigger than the code doing the actual work (though one could rightly blame the existing UI for not being designed for extensibility). Cheers Luigi -- -----------------------------------------+------------------------------- Prof. Luigi RIZZO, ri...@iet.unipi.it . Dip. di Ing. dell'Informazione http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . Universita` di Pisa TEL +39-050-2211611 . via Diotisalvi 2 Mobile +39-338-6809875 . 56122 PISA (Italy) -----------------------------------------+------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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"
