How To Get The Most Out Of Dummynet

An anonymous reader writes "BSDVault has published a tutorial on using dummynet to weight and queue traffic based on classes and type of service. The tutorial is called 'IPFW NAT firewall with WF2Q+ (Worst-case Fair Weighted Fair Queuing) Policy' and details how to add queuing and priority to the traffic flowing in and out of your network. There is also an example script to get you started in writing your own rules with plenty of self explanatory configurations that you should find very useful for getting a similar config up and working. If you are into this kind of thing a worthy read ... "

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I was just looking at DUMMYNET

[Strog]

I was looking at options for managing bandwidth at work. We already do priority queuing but this could give a more fine grain control over who gets the bandwidth and when.

I was going to do some testing at home. My wife just browses the internet and chats while I have some higher priority realtime traffic (Counterstrike, MOHAA, UT2003, etc). I was thinking about giving her 1/4-1/3 of the bandwidth so it didn't affect my ping as much. Her traffic is fairly light and she goes to bed early so it hasn't really been a big deal. Most of what I do at home isn't necessary but it's a good place to tinker and learn.

There are a lot of good tidbits in this article. Very good timing for me.