Bandwidth Question

[Patrick O'Reilly]

From: "Chris" <stenchmaster at blackhelicopters.org>
>
> I was wondering what is the best way to limit bandwidth to a set of IP
> addresses?  I've read some about dummynet.  Would this be the
preffered
> tool to use?

Yes - dummynet must be used in conjunction with ipfw.  ipfw is for
firewalling, but you can use it to select traffic which must be limitted
by dummynet.

'man ipfw' and 'man dummynet'

>  Also, if someone could recommend a program to log how much
> bandwidth a particular IP uses per month etc..., and also display
graphs
> about bandwidth usage I would appreciate it.

check out mrtg in the ports collection.

>
> Thank You
> -Chris
>
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