traffic shaping on RELENG_10 ?

[Mike Tancsa]

On 12/16/2015 4:27 PM, Karl Denninger wrote:
>> Protect some boxes via pf, and then limit one box from eating up all the
>> bandwidth when doing a backups and syncs.
>> I would like to keep pf for firewall rules, and I would like to use
>> ipfw+DUMMYNET for bandwidth shaping
>>
>>
>> 	---Mike
>>
> I use this...
>    ipfw pipe 1 config bw 3000Kbit/s
>    ipfw add 1700 pipe 1 tcp from {wherever} to any
> 
> (and so on.... you can add any sort of flow into the pipe, and it will
> honor that limit)
> 
> Works very well.
> 

Thanks, I have indeed used dummynet with great success. What I am trying
to find out is can I still use pf for all the firewall rules, and then
just use ipfw+dummynet for traffic shaping.... safely.

	---Mike



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