layer2 filtering and dummynet, bw reduced by half

Patrick Tracanelli eksffa at freebsdbrasil.com.br
Tue Oct 4 06:47:03 PDT 2005


Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> see the ipfw manpage near the eginning with the graph
> showing the packet flow.
> 
> "layer2" means the rule matches only on layer2.
> "not layer2" matches only on layer 3.
> if you don't put anything, it matches both layer2 and layer3.
> 
> luigi

Rizzo,

Thank you a lot for clearing it up.

I tried with pipes and queues and explicitly enforcing only layer3 did 
the work. Very good, thanks.

-- 
Patrick Tracanelli


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