Packet Shaping

Sunil Sunder Raj unixtools at hotmail.com
Sun May 18 03:31:41 PDT 2003


Hi,
Last month I was finally successfull in implementing this on my busy 
network. You get no help for this on the net. I broke my head on this.

I used Ipfw+dummynet to achieve this.

Regards
SSR


>From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk>
>To: Mark Lapointe <lapoin1 at uwindsor.ca>
>CC: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: Packet Shaping
>Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 10:29:49 +0100
>
>On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 08:57:22PM -0400, Mark Lapointe wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I would like to share my DSL connection w/ my housemates, but since I am
> > footing most of the bill, and they are starting to become more heavy
> > users I would like to limit them to like 100k down to 25k up on their
> > part of the subnet (from 192.168.1.100 to 199) then segment my end to be
> > able to use unlimited if I want to, possibly limit myself to 300K when
> > the others are active.
> >
> > I could always create another subnet for myself also (ph33r the
> > housemates... let the virri that they catch, they can keep to 
>themselves).
>
>That's not excruciatingly difficult to achieve.  You need a
>combination of ipfw(8) and dummynet(4).  Luigi Rizzo (author of
>dummynet) has a page with lots of useful information at
>http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ip_dummynet/
>
>	Cheers,
>
>	Matthew
>
>--
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