ALTQ on a process on the router

[Adam Clark]

Basically I have bittorrent running on the firewall/router.  I am trying
to lessen the impact on our 128/512k DSL line.
Currently it hogs everything and makes web traffic annoyingly slow.

I want to make bittorrent lowest priority traffic.

It's a shame that you cant do inbound queuing, to implement rate
limiting there.

Adam 

> 

Adam Clark
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> From: Travis H. [mailto:solinym at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, 13 July 2006 4:34 AM
> To: Adam Clark
> Cc: freebsd-pf at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: ALTQ on a process on the router
> 
> On 7/12/06, Adam Clark <adam.clark at ngv.vic.gov.au> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >   I am trying to perform ALTQ on a process running on the 
> router itself.
> >
> > I have bound the application to to internal IP address 
> (10.10.10.254), 
> > that which is bound to the internal interface.
> >
> > When I log-all packets passing out this interface, I cannot see any 
> > data going to 10.10.10.254, just other hosts on my network. 
>  This is 
> > bound to be how it is meant to be, but its not healping my 
> situation. 
> > Is there anyway to make the kernel put frames destined for 
> itself on 
> > the appropriate interface?
> 
> No; the Unix kernel short-circuits any packets destined for 
> any of its interfaces and puts them on the loopback 
> interface.  Perhaps you should be looking there?
> 
> Why would you want to queue stuff that the router is sending 
> to itself?  It's not like you're bandwidth-limited, because 
> it never goes over a communications link.  It's CPU-limited, 
> and it gets processed as soon as it "appears" on lo0.
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