From ea0cd96bbfad655706030316bf03a8df70fe3bde Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: issyl0 Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 08:42:48 +0000 Subject: - Make ipfw's sched rules case insensitive, for user-friendliness. - Add a note to the ipfw(8) man page about the rules no longer being case sensitive. - Fix some typos in the man page. PR: docs/164772 Reviewed by: bz Approved by: gabor (doc mentor, src committer) MFC after: 2 weeks --- sbin/ipfw/ipfw.8 | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'sbin/ipfw') diff --git a/sbin/ipfw/ipfw.8 b/sbin/ipfw/ipfw.8 index 83a0c16..7974ed6 100644 --- a/sbin/ipfw/ipfw.8 +++ b/sbin/ipfw/ipfw.8 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd June 10, 2012 +.Dd July 3, 2012 .Dt IPFW 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -2218,19 +2218,20 @@ Specifies the weight to be used for flows matching this queue. The weight must be in the range 1..100, and defaults to 1. .El .Pp -The following parameters can be configured for a scheduler: +The following case-insensitive parameters can be configured for a +scheduler: .Pp .Bl -tag -width indent -compact -.It Cm type Ar {fifo | wf2qp | rr | qfq} +.It Cm type Ar {fifo | wf2q+ | rr | qfq} specifies the scheduling algorithm to use. .Bl -tag -width indent -compact -.It cm fifo +.It Cm fifo is just a FIFO scheduler (which means that all packets are stored in the same queue as they arrive to the scheduler). FIFO has O(1) per-packet time complexity, with very low constants (estimate 60-80ns on a 2GHz desktop machine) but gives no service guarantees. -.It Cm wf2qp +.It Cm wf2q+ implements the WF2Q+ algorithm, which is a Weighted Fair Queueing algorithm which permits flows to share bandwidth according to their weights. Note that weights are not priorities; even a flow -- cgit v1.1