shape network traffic but give priority to one application

[Paul A. Procacci]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 07:47:40AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am again on a very remote location with a pretty slow Internet
> connection. The problem I would like to solve sounds simple.
>
> What is the easiest way to shape the network traffic so that one
> machine gets most of the bandwidth when needed while all other machines
> share the remaining bandwidth?
>
> Google tells me that pfsense is a good start. Are there better options?
>
> Erich
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Now sure about pfsense, but I use ipfw w/ weighted queues pretty effectively.

~Paul

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