[H-GEN] network traffic shaping

[Joe Skilton]

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Pete Arnold wrote:
>
> Does DummyNet come on other [Open | Net]BSD platforms. A quick glance
> at FreeBSD lists a few platforms including ultrasparc but not
> sparc. I've got a lazy SS5 that I was thinking of using if I went down
> this track.

>From what I remember reading of Dummynet it only works with FreeBSD, and a
quick google confirms this from the Author's homepage, however I do not know
whether there is ported version's available?

> > Dummynet does it all with simplicity and ease, specify a pipe that you
want
> > to be able to limit then simply modify the BW and Packetloss settings on
> > that pipe.
>
> Hmmm Sounds good, Do you need two NICs for that? Not that that is a
problem.

Two Nics shouldn't be necissary no, as you can specify a pipe as being
from/to any ip address, but in saying that I don't actually have a single
NIC box here, so I can't test it for you, sorry.


> I guess what's readily available is Solaris 8 X86, Redhat
> 9, or whatever I can load on a sparc 5.

I found the Linux B/w shaping very daunting, which is the main reason I
chose FreeBSD, It may be worth finding out whether Net/Open BSD have
dummynet or some such program available to them, but failing that I would
suggest tc on your favourite linux distro.  I noticed FreeBSD have a Sparc64
version, this doesnt help??(I don't know Sparc's).

> Cheers
> peter

I wish you the best of luck,
        Joe


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