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Date:      Fri, 28 May 1999 18:42:56 -0400
From:      "Pleschutznig, Andreas" <Andreas.Pleschutznig@Schwab.COM>
To:        Tibor Borzak <cezy@inext.ro>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: IP questions..
Message-ID:  <11585F032846CF11867900805FE2A57706D6164E@N1002SMX.nt.schwab.com>

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How do you limit the speed of the connection? That is something I was always
looking for, to limit the amount of bandwith one particular user(ip) can
chew up. I must have overlooked this, or not seen in the manual. Could you
point me to the proper manual page and give me a hint?

Thanks

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug White [mailto:dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu]
> Sent: Friday, May 28, 1999 3:23 PM
> To: Tibor Borzak
> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: IP questions..
> 
> 
> On Thu, 27 May 1999, Tibor Borzak wrote:
> 
> > I'm running FreeBSD 3.0.6 as an Internet server (DNS, SMTP) and also
> > as a local gateway for a local area network. I'm mesuring the amount
> > of MB consumed by each client using the ipfw show command. 
> I limit the
> > speed of the conection using the firewall.rules facility. 
> Here I have
> > an each group for each client. My problem is : when a 
> client from the
> > LAN, changing his IP address (normally allocated from my domain) I'm
> > losing the control to mesauring the trafic correctly. Exist any
> > posibility to deny some IP addresses (as in Linux in ip_deny) to
> > connect to my server ? Exact where and how must I set it ?
> 
> See 'man ipfw'; of course you can set deny rules just like any other.
> 
> Doug White                               
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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> 
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