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NAME

dummynet - traffic shaper, bandwidth manager and delay emulator

CONTENTS

Description
Kernel Options
See Also
History

DESCRIPTION

The dummynet system facility permits the control of traffic going through the various network interfaces, by applying bandwidth and queue size limitations, implementing different scheduling and queue management policies, and emulating delays and losses.

The user interface for dummynet is implemented by the ipfw(8) utility, so please refer to the ipfw(8) manpage for a complete description of the dummynet capabilities and how to use it.

Kernel Options

The following options in the kernel configuration file are related to dummynet operation:

IPFIREWALL enable ipfirewall (required for dummynet)
IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE enable firewall output
IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE_LIMIT limit firewall output
DUMMYNET enable dummynet operation
NMBCLUSTERS set the amount of network packet buffers
HZ set the timer granularity

Generally, the following options are required:
options IPFIREWALL
options DUMMYNET
options HZ=1000 # strongly recommended

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.

SEE ALSO

setsockopt(2), bridge(4), if_bridge(4), ip(4), ipfw(8), sysctl(8)

HISTORY

ipfw(4)

 
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