pf and dummynet

Nikos Vassiliadis nvass at gmx.com
Mon Jul 29 23:45:07 UTC 2019


Hi,

On 2019-07-29 19:06, mike tancsa wrote:
> I have a box I need to shape inbound and outbound traffic. It seems altq
> can only shape outbound packets and not limit inbound ?  If thats the
> case, what is the current state of mixing ipfw, dummynet and pf ?
> Writing large complex firewall rules works better from a readability POV
> (for us anyways) so I really prefer to use it. But I need to prevent zfs
> replication eating up BW over some WAN links, and dummynet seems to
> "just work"


Maybe you could use pipe viewer (pv in ports or packages) on the
ZFS host to limit the bandwidth in userspace.

Nikos


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