Dummynet Limitations

From: Karim Fodil-Lemelin (kfl_at_xiphos.ca)
Date: 03/16/04

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    Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:50:39 -0500
To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org

    Hi

        This code:

    <code>
         if (pipe.delay > 10000)
                                errx(EX_DATAERR, "delay %d must be < 10000",
    pipe.delay);
    </code>

    in /usr/src/sbin/ipfw/ipfw.c

    Limits the pipe delay for dummynet to 10 seconds. Is there any reason
    for this? Also, no such limit is imposed on the bandwidth why?
    Memory (amount of mbufs/mbclusters) is obviously a limit here but I was
    wondering if something else was hidden in this statement.

    Regards,

    Karim
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