Re: Packet rate limiter

2007-02-07 Thread Justin Robertson
Newp. You're stuck to good old bps with ipfw or bps/cpse (connections per second established) with pf. The other method would be to use cisco netflow export data from a router being polled - then limiting traffic with one of the methods mentioned above... or just place pps limits on your

6.x, 4.x ipfw/dummynet pf/altq - network performance issues

2007-02-05 Thread Justin Robertson
So, this may be the wrong list to post to, but it seemed the most appropriate. If someone could suggest a better location to move/cross post to let me know. I've been running some tests with using FreeBSD to filter and rate limit traffic. My first thoughts were to goto the latest stable

Re: 6.x, 4.x ipfw/dummynet pf/altq - network performance issues

2007-02-05 Thread Justin Robertson
I've actually already done everything you've suggested with little or no impact at all. One point where we have different results is with ADAPTIVE_GIANT, I actually noticed a drop of about 50kpps thruput when disabling it. Mike Tancsa wrote: On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 14:03:41 -0800, in

little lost with my netstat -m output

2005-07-16 Thread Justin Robertson
I have a couple of issues that I'm somewhat concerned about based on some netstat output results. I have a few boxes running 4.11-STABLE that provide this; FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #0: Wed May 4 09:49:52 PDT 2005 (i386) # netstat -m netstat: sysctl: retrieving mbstat: Cannot allocate memory

little lost with my netstat -m output

2005-07-16 Thread Justin Robertson
I have a couple of issues that I'm somewhat concerned about based on some netstat output results. I have a few boxes running 4.11-STABLE that provide this; FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #0: Wed May 4 09:49:52 PDT 2005 (i386) # netstat -m netstat: sysctl: retrieving mbstat: Cannot allocate memory