Re: adsl and altq

[Henning Brauer <lists-openbsd_(_at_)_bsws_(_dot_)_de>]

On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:19:40PM +0000, Ralph Kube wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 03:19:16PM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote:
> > well you have to be a bit more specific and give more data ;-)
> > you're using -current, e. g. altq merged into pf?
> > then you can watch altq working via pfctl -vvsq
> Sorry, forgot that. I'm using 3.2-stable. 
> The line is 768kBit/s upstream and 128kBit/s downstream. With my config
> i try to limit and partition the upstream:
> 
> <begin /etc/altq.conf:>
> <end /etc/altq.conf>

I don't remember the altq.conf syntax at all; I think that's not too bad ;-)

> I got an application running on another machine on my internal network
> which uses a lot of traffic on 4661/4662 tcp and 4665/4666/16283 udp.
> To strictly limit its traffic i didn't use the borrow directive. 
> Whenever this application is not running i get 'normal' ping times, like
> 55ms to a good host (www.heise.de).
> But whenever it is running my ping goes up to about 2500ms, which makes
> it very painful to use other applications, like a browser or a mail
> client. 

hmm, that is strange. most probably an error in your ruleset, but... as
said, I don't remember altq.conf ;-)
wanna try -current perhaps?

> > it's quite clear some queues are overlimit sometimes; the resolution is
> > limited.
> This is one of my main concerns. The man page already says that. 
> Is altq usable for my situation?

yes, I don't see why it should not be.

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