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authorru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2000-12-29 09:18:45 +0000
committerru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2000-12-29 09:18:45 +0000
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@@ -42,12 +42,12 @@ Packets are sent to a pipe using the command
.Bd -literal
ipfw add pipe NNN ....
.Ed
-
+.Pp
and pipes are configured as follows:
.Bd -literal
ipfw pipe NNN config bw B delay D queue Q plr P
.Ed
-
+.Pp
where the bandwidth B can be expressed in bit/s, Kbit/s, Mbit/s,
Bytes/s, KBytes/s, MBytes/s , delay in milliseconds, queue size in
packets or Bytes, plr is the fraction of packets randomly dropped.
@@ -75,8 +75,6 @@ link would be the following:
ipfw pipe 1 config bw 1Mbit/s delay 80ms
ipfw pipe 2 config bw 128Kbit/s delay 300ms
.Ed
-
-.Pp
.Sh OPERATION
The
.Nm ipfw
@@ -104,7 +102,7 @@ thus controlled by the kernel option
.Bd -literal
options HZ
.Ed
-
+.Pp
whose default value (100) means a granularity of 10ms.
For an accurate simulation of high data rates it might be necessary to
reduce the timer granularity to 1ms or less.
@@ -114,7 +112,6 @@ time to output packets.
So, reducing the granularity too much might
actually cause ticks to be missed thus reducing the accuracy of
operation.
-
.Sh KERNEL OPTIONS
The following options in the kernel configuration file are related
to
@@ -134,13 +131,11 @@ Generally, the following options are required:
options IPFIREWALL
options DUMMYNET
.Ed
-
+.Pp
additionally, one may want to increase the number
of mbuf clusters (used to store network packets) according to the
sum of the bandwidth-delay products and queue sizes of all configured
pipes.
-
-
.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES
.Pp
.Ql net.inet.ip.fw.one_pass
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