ipfw, dummynet and a large subnet to shape

[clemens fischer]

* Ben Pfountz:

> It looks like it should work, but you should always try it.  I have almost
> never written a firewall ruleset that worked the way I expected it to work
> on the first try.  You should take a laptop and become a wireless client,
> then try to download something with a reliably high download rate.  Then you
> should go to one of your client machines on the LAN and try to download
> something as well.  You could even reduce the bandwidth rate just for
> testing, for example 56Kbit/s.  This would help to prove whether or not the
> pipes are working.

... and post the ruleset that works, please ...

  clemens