cant get the damn bandwidth limiter working

[Roland Smith]

On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 02:58:50PM +0200, deeptech71 at gmail.com wrote:
>  RW wrote:
> > On Sat, 26 May 2007 16:52:56 +0200
> > deeptech71 at gmail.com wrote:
> >> pf and altq are enabled. My ISP allows 16kB/s upload and 128kB/s
> >> download. I want to use half of that. What should pf.conf contain, to
> >> limit my computer's upload and download speeds? I've tried:
> >>
> >> altq sk0 cbq bandwidth 1576Kb queue { lan, upload, download }
> >> queue lan bandwidth 1000Kb cbq(default)
> >> queue upload bandwidth 64Kb cbq
> >> queue download bandwidth 512Kb cbq
> >> block in all
> >> pass in quick on sk0 from 192.168.0.0/16 queue lan
> >> pass in all on sk0 queue download
> >> block out all
> >> pass out quick on sk0 to 192.168.0.0/16 queue lan
> >> pass out all on sk0 queue upload
> >>
> > AFAIK ALTQ only queues outgoing traffic, and    pass in quick on sk0 from 
> > 192.168.0.0/16 queue lan means: send the packet to the lan queue if it's 
> > routed out via the
> > interface to which "queue lan" is attached, i.e. back out via sk0 -
> > which isn't going to happen. 
> 
>  That would explain. So is there any way to limit the speed at which i'm 
>  downloading? Come on I've seen a bunch of software like this for Windows on 
>  the net!

According to http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/queueing.html it _can_ work
if you have a separate router See the examples.

Roland
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