Quick question about PF and ALTQ

Girish Venkatachalam girishvenkatachalam at gmail.com
Mon Nov 12 02:55:33 PST 2007


On 10:17:52 Nov 12, Peter Boosten wrote:
 
> Yu, it does. Very nice explanation, thanx.
> 

NP. Thanks.

> 
> Well, it's actually quite simple: our internet access line, which is used
> by several people (directly, without a proxy server, but with a FreeBSD
> firewall). Our management wants to block unwanted traffic (so not: wants
> to block unwanted sited - which would be very easy), like p2p and online
> radio, since this traffic is:
> - non business related
> - bandwidth consuming

In that case you don't need QoS at all.

Just use pf for it.

Refer to the first mail I sent in this thread. All the info you need is
right there.

Don't worry about altq.

Best,
Girish


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