I am trying to set up dummynet with FreeBSD 9.3 and a 10 GB Fibre over ethernet NIC (ix drivers).
Dummynet appears to have a limit of 1.25 gigabits a second, and when I start setting extremely large pipe values I start running into: ipfw: bandwidth too large It doesn't like(in /etc/ipfw.rules) $IPFWcmd pipe 10 config bw 8000Mbits but for some reason it likes $IPFWcmd pipe 20 config bw 100000Mbits and $IPFWcmd pipe 10 config bw 10000Mbits even if there is no notcable performance diffrence betwen them $ iperf -c load-server2 ------------------------------------------------------------ Client connecting to load-server2, TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 434 KByte (default) ------------------------------------------------------------ [ 3] local 192.168.20.25 port 56122 connected with 192.168.20.20 port 5001 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.57 GBytes 1.35 Gbits/sec $ iperf -c load-server1 ------------------------------------------------------------ Client connecting to load-server1, TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 459 KByte (default) ------------------------------------------------------------ [ 3] local 192.168.20.20 port 49028 connected with 192.168.20.25 port 5001 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.36 GBytes 1.17 Gbits/sec testing is done on a private subnet which houses nothing more than two loading servers and a FreeBSD bridge in between. All machines have 10 GB/sec ix driver cards. Now, same set up, but commenting out all dummynet refrences in ipfw.rules: $ iperf -c load-server1 ------------------------------------------------------------ Client connecting to load-server1, TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 459 KByte (default) ------------------------------------------------------------ [ 3] local 192.168.20.20 port 49029 connected with 192.168.20.25 port 5001 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 8.44 GBytes 7.24 Gbits/sec $ iperf -c load-server2 ------------------------------------------------------------ Client connecting to load-server2, TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 434 KByte (default) ------------------------------------------------------------ [ 3] local 192.168.20.25 port 56123 connected with 192.168.20.20 port 5001 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 7.89 GBytes 6.78 Gbits/sec _______________________________________________ freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ipfw To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ipfw-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"