cant get the damn bandwidth limiter working

[magikman]

deeptech71 at gmail.com wrote:
> RW wrote:
>> On Sat, 26 May 2007 16:52:56 +0200
>> deeptech71 at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> pf and altq are enabled. My ISP allows 16kB/s upload and 128kB/s
>>> download. I want to use half of that. What should pf.conf contain, to
>>> limit my computer's upload and download speeds? I've tried:
>>>
>>> altq sk0 cbq bandwidth 1576Kb queue { lan, upload, download }
>>> queue lan bandwidth 1000Kb cbq(default)
>>> queue upload bandwidth 64Kb cbq
>>> queue download bandwidth 512Kb cbq
>>> block in all
>>> pass in quick on sk0 from 192.168.0.0/16 queue lan
>>> pass in all on sk0 queue download
>>> block out all
>>> pass out quick on sk0 to 192.168.0.0/16 queue lan
>>> pass out all on sk0 queue upload
>>>
>>
>> AFAIK ALTQ only queues outgoing traffic, and
>>    pass in quick on sk0 from 192.168.0.0/16 queue lan
>> means: send the packet to the lan queue if it's routed out via the
>> interface to which "queue lan" is attached, i.e. back out via sk0 -
>> which isn't going to happen. 
>
> That would explain. So is there any way to limit the speed at which 
> i'm downloading? Come on I've seen a bunch of software like this for 
> Windows on the net!
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IPFW and dummynet will allow this. I came up with this from a short 
google search:
http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/2004/09/22/mini_tutorial_f.html

good luck!