Feature #3933
closed
Limiter burst doesn't have any effect
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Description
No matter what you put in the burst field, the limiter behaves exactly the same as if it's 0 or null. Re-tested on the most recent 2.2 snapshot as of now, and it behaves the same in every 2.1.x stable release. For example the attached traffic graph, that's 4 Mb down (out), 2 Mb up (in) limiters. First run with no burst, second run with 400000 thrown in as the burst. Doesn't matter if that's a small number or huge number, it has no effect at all.
I'd be fine with just removing the burst field for 2.2 if fixing this is really involved.
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Updated by Ermal Luçi over 9 years ago
It will take effect only when the queue if full as normal with other shaping implementations.
If your queue is not full you will not notice this at all.
Updated by Chris Buechler over 9 years ago
- Assignee changed from Ermal Luçi to Chris Buechler
after discussion with Ermal, needs testing vs. stock FreeBSD
Updated by Chris Buechler over 9 years ago
- Status changed from New to Confirmed
- Assignee deleted (
Chris Buechler) - Target version changed from 2.2 to 2.3
dummynet burst on stock FreeBSD 10.1 does indeed work how I'd expect it to work. Ours doesn't have any impact whatsoever, with the exact same pipe config that has the expected behavior on 10.1. This has never worked, and there are too many 2.2 target issues already, so I just commented out the burst portion from the GUI bits. Can revisit later.
Updated by Ahmed Kamal over 9 years ago
Hi Chris,
This issue is a blocker for me, I would really want the bursting functionality to work. I would like to help debug this issue as much as I can. I'm new to BSDs, but I'm quite experienced with Linux .. so I can hopefully get the hang of it
Can someone please guide me into how to debug this .. What commands to run, where to look .. I mean if the kernel level functionality is correct in FreeBSD 10.1, then this strikes me as just a configuration mistake (most likely) ? or a wrong command being run by the GUI ...etc
Updated by Chris Buechler over 9 years ago
it's not a config or command issue, if it were that simple I would have fixed it. It's a kernel issue with dummynet in pf.
Updated by Ahmed Kamal almost 9 years ago
Hi folks,
Any progress on this one? Is there any alpha version that might have this working for me to test .. Thanks!
Updated by Web Dawg almost 9 years ago
Target version is 2.3
https://redmine.pfsense.org/versions/16
Shows 2.2.3 as latest.
So, I do not think so.
Updated by Jim Thompson over 8 years ago
- Assignee changed from Ermal Luçi to Chris Buechler
Updated by Web Dawg over 8 years ago
Does this mean that this is not going to be a feature anymore?
Updated by Chris Buechler over 8 years ago
It never was a functional feature. We'll look at fixing it at some point, just not for 2.3.
Updated by Chris Buechler almost 8 years ago
- Tracker changed from Bug to Feature
- Status changed from Confirmed to Closed
- Assignee deleted (
Chris Buechler)