cant get the damn bandwidth limiter working

[deeptech71 at gmail.com]

Roland Smith wrote:
> 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

Yes but is it possible to set it up as a DownLoadAltqThing on a computer with 1 
net interface? (I don't have the hardware to set up other topologies.)