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Bug #12661

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Increase Maximum Allowable Bandwidth on Limiters

Added by Timo M almost 3 years ago. Updated almost 3 years ago.

Status:
Needs Patch
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
Category:
Traffic Shaper (Limiters)
Target version:
-
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0%

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Description

This is a continuation from the topic discussed on the forum here:

https://forum.netgate.com/topic/168866/maximum-bandwidth-value-for-limiters

It appears that the current maximum allowable bandwidth limit for setting on traffic shaping limiters is about 4294 Mbit/s or 2^32 bits/s. I'm not sure if this is just a limit on the value that the input field supports or an actual hard limit of the limiter framework. With multi-gigabit connections becoming more common it would be great if allowable bandwidth setting on limiters could be updated to support bandwidth values of 10 Gbit/s and beyond.


Related issues

Related to Bug #7979: Error setting limiter over 2GB/sResolvedLuiz Souza10/20/2017

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Actions #1

Updated by Kris Phillips almost 3 years ago

I can confirm that setting a limiter of 5 gigabit produces the following error in the system logs:

/rc.filter_configure_sync: The command '/sbin/ipfw /tmp/rules.limiter' returned exit code '65', the output was 'Line 2: duplicate token, override bandwidth value! Line 2: bandwidth too large'
Actions #2

Updated by Viktor Gurov almost 3 years ago

current limiter maximums is 4Gb/s, see #7979

related FreeBSD issue: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=194453

Actions #3

Updated by Viktor Gurov almost 3 years ago

  • Related to Bug #7979: Error setting limiter over 2GB/s added
Actions #4

Updated by Jim Pingle almost 3 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Needs Patch

Since this is blocked on an upstream limitation, there isn't anything we can do here at the moment. Once it's fixed in FreeBSD we'll pick it up naturally.

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