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29.Dd October 17, 2019
30.Dt NG_PIPE 4
31.Os
32.Sh NAME
33.Nm ng_pipe
34.Nd Traffic manipulating netgraph node type
35.Sh SYNOPSIS
36.In netgraph/ng_pipe.h
37.Sh DESCRIPTION
38The
39.Nm pipe
40node type manipulates traffic by emulating bandwidth and delay, as well as
41random packet losses.
42.Sh HOOKS
43This node type supports the following hooks:
44.Bl -tag -width ".Va upper"
45.It Va upper
46Hook leading to upper layer protocols.
47.It Va lower
48Hook leading to lower layer protocols.
49.El
50.Pp
51Traffic flowing from
52.Va upper
53to
54.Va lower
55is considered
56.Sy downstream
57traffic.
58Traffic flowing from
59.Va lower
60to
61.Va upper
62is considered
63.Sy upstream
64traffic.
65.Sh MODE OF OPERATION
66Data received on a hook - both in upstream and downstream direction -
67is put into an inbound queue.
68If inbound queue is full, discard one frame
69depending on dropping policy (from the head or from the tail of the
70queue).
71.Pp
72There are three mutually exclusive modes for the input queue:
73.Bl -tag -width foo
74.It Dv "First In First Out (FIFO)"
75A single queue holds packets in chronological order.
76.It Dv Weighted fair queuing (WFQ)
77There are multiple queues for different traffic flows (based on IPv4
78IPs).
79The longest queue is truncated if necessary.
80This approach
81assumes that the stalling flow is the flow with the most packets currently
82on hold.
83.It Dv Deficit Round Robin (DRR)
84This mode is similar to WFQ, but packets are not taken out in
85strict chronological order.
86In principle oldest packets come first,
87but not too many packets from the same flow.
88.El
89.Pp
90It is possible to configure a duplication probability.
91As the dice
92decides, the currently active packet stays in the queue while a copy
93of the packet is sent out.
94Nothing prevents a packet from being
95duplicated multiple times.
96.Pp
97Packets are dropped with an increasing probability depending on the
98size of the packet, if a
99.Va ber
100(bit error rate) is configured.
101.Pp
102Surviving packets are delayed by the time the packet would need to
103travel through a link of the configured bandwidth.
104If this outbound
105queue is full, the packet is dropped.
106.Sh CONTROL MESSAGES
107This node type supports the generic control messages and the following
108specific messages.
109.Bl -tag -width foo
110.It Dv NGM_PIPE_SET_CFG Pq Ic setcfg
111Set node configuration to the one specified in
112.Vt "struct ng_pipe_cfg"
113.Pp
114Note: To set a value to zero, specify -1 instead.
115This allows omitting configuration values, which should not be
116modified.
117.It Dv NGM_PIPE_GET_CFG Pq Ic getcfg
118Return current node configuration as
119.Vt "struct ng_pipe_cfg"
120.Bd -literal
121struct ng_pipe_cfg {
122  u_int64_t  bandwidth;     /* bits per second */
123  u_int64_t  delay;         /* additional delay, usec */
124  u_int32_t  header_offset; /* offset of IP header in bytes */
125  u_int32_t  overhead;      /* assumed L2 overhead in bytes */
126  struct ng_pipe_hookcfg  downstream;
127  struct ng_pipe_hookcfg  upstream;
128};
129
130/* Config structure for one hook */
131struct ng_pipe_hookcfg {
132  u_int64_t  bandwidth;       /* bits per second */
133  u_int64_t  ber;             /* avg. interval between bit errors (1 / BER) */
134  u_int32_t  qin_size_limit;  /* number of queue items */
135  u_int32_t  qout_size_limit; /* number of queue items */
136  u_int32_t  duplicate;       /* probability in % */
137  u_int32_t  fifo;            /* 0 = off, 1 = on */
138  u_int32_t  drr;             /* 0 = off, 1 = 2048 bytes, or x bytes */
139  u_int32_t  wfq;             /* 0 = off, 1 = on */
140  u_int32_t  droptail;        /* 0 = off, 1 = on */
141  u_int32_t  drophead;        /* 0 = off, 1 = on */
142};
143.Ed
144.It Dv NGM_PIPE_GET_STATS Pq Ic getstats
145Return node statistics as
146.Vt "struct ng_pipe_stats"
147.Bd -literal
148/* Statistics structure for one hook */
149struct ng_pipe_hookstat {
150  u_int64_t  fwd_octets;
151  u_int64_t  fwd_frames;
152  u_int64_t  in_disc_octets;
153  u_int64_t  in_disc_frames;
154  u_int64_t  out_disc_octets;
155  u_int64_t  out_disc_frames;
156};
157
158/* Statistics structure returned by NGM_PIPE_GET_STATS */
159struct ng_pipe_stats {
160  struct ng_pipe_hookstat  downstream;
161  struct ng_pipe_hookstat  upstream;
162};
163.Ed
164.It Dv NGM_PIPE_CLR_STATS Pq Ic clrstats
165Clear node statistics.
166.It Dv NGM_PIPE_GETCLR_STATS Pq Ic getclrstats
167Atomically return and clear node statistics.
168.It Dv NGM_PIPE_GET_RUN Pq Ic getrun
169Return node statistics as
170.Vt "struct ng_pipe_run"
171.Bd -literal
172/* Runtime structure for one hook */
173struct ng_pipe_hookrun {
174  u_int32_t  fifo_queues;
175  u_int32_t  qin_octets;
176  u_int32_t  qin_frames;
177  u_int32_t  qout_octets;
178  u_int32_t  qout_frames;
179};
180
181/* Runtime structure returned by NGM_PIPE_GET_RUN */
182struct ng_pipe_run {
183  struct ng_pipe_hookrun  downstream;
184  struct ng_pipe_hookrun  upstream;
185};
186.Ed
187.El
188.Sh SHUTDOWN
189This node shuts down upon receipt of a
190.Dv NGM_SHUTDOWN
191control message, or when all hooks have been disconnected.
192.Sh EXAMPLES
193Limit outgoing data rate over fxp0 Ethernet interface to 20Mbps in
194fifo mode and incoming to 50kbps in drr mode and 2% duplicate
195probability.
196.Bd -literal -offset indent
197/usr/sbin/ngctl -f- <<-SEQ
198  mkpeer fxp0: pipe lower lower
199  name fxp0:lower fxp0_pipe
200  connect fxp0: fxp0_pipe: upper upper
201  msg fxp0_pipe: setcfg { downstream={ bandwidth=20000000 fifo=1 } }
202  msg fxp0_pipe: setcfg { upstream={ bandwidth=500000 drr=1 duplicate=2 } }
203SEQ
204.Ed
205.Sh SEE ALSO
206.Xr netgraph 4 ,
207.Xr ngctl 8
208.Sh AUTHORS
209.An Lutz Donnerhacke Aq Mt lutz@donnerhacke.de
210.Pq man page
211.Sh BUGS
212Error handling for memory issues is missing.
213If kernel memory cannot be allocated immediately, a kernel panic will
214be triggered.
215Same happens if an mbuf is fragmented within the transport headers.
216