Line limitations with dummynet

Luigi Rizzo rizzo at icir.org
Tue Feb 3 03:12:54 PST 2004


On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 12:07:23PM +0100, Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
> First of all -- my understanding of dummynet is that it works on a 
> per-connection basis. For instance, if I limit a host to 30KB/s in an attempt 

no, this is incorrect. By using 'mask's on a pipe, you can set
the granularity of operation as you like -- per connection,
per host, per group of services, etc. etc.

See the ipfw manpage.

	cheers
	luigi


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