Traffic Shaping with IPFW question

Thu May 8 16:27:28 PDT 2003

On 2003.05.08 19:22:18 -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> Is it possible to shape traffic (limit consumption) from specific ip ranges?
> 
> For example, I have some files that are usually pulled down from one 
> customer - when they do this, it eats up a lot of traffic - if I could 
> limit the bandwidth from my site TO theirs, it would be better and wouldn't 
> interfere with other operations going over the interface.
> 
> I tried looking for a "howto" on this...

Look at dummynet(4) and ipfw(8).

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
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