Traffic Shaping with pf ...

Max Laier max at love2party.net
Wed Nov 16 14:20:08 PST 2005


On Wednesday 16 November 2005 23:18, Matthew Grooms wrote:
>       I have a couple of firewalls running freebsd 5.4 and pf and was
> planning to use ALTQ for traffic shaping. But after doing a bit of
> reading, it would seem that ALTQ only works on traffic passing outbound
> on an interface. Since most of the traffic passing through my firewall
> is http and ftp traffic, the inbound direction is the path being
> saturated. Did I read the ALTQ documentation wrong or is there another
> mechanism available for use with pf that could help me prioritize
> bandwidth usage?

You can not control inbound traffic!  You can not control what other people 
sent to you!  It's impossible.  The only way to do it is to limit *outbound* 
traffic on an upstream router.

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