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Date:      Wed, 16 Dec 2015 16:02:11 -0500
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: traffic shaping on RELENG_10 ?
Message-ID:  <5671D153.4030501@sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <5671C816.8060004@denninger.net>
References:  <5671C78A.4030807@sentex.net> <5671C816.8060004@denninger.net>

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On 12/16/2015 3:22 PM, Karl Denninger wrote:
> 
> On 12/16/2015 14:20, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>> I need to do some simple traffic shaping, but whenever I try and use
>> altq, I dont seem to have any luck-- I mean zero.
>>
>>  I like the management of pf via pf.conf, but miss the simplicity of
>> dummynet and ipfw.  Has anyone used pf and ipfw together in RELENG10 ?
>> Any tips / caveats ? Or am I better off re-writing the pf rules into
>> ipfw and be done with it.
>>
>> 	---Mike
> What are you trying to do?
> 
> I use rate-shaping in ipfw without problems and have been for quite some
> time.

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




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