Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 23:25:07 -0700 From: J & C Frazier <admin@csocs.com> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bandwidth limits Message-ID: <3AB5A643.1D6D1AEA@csocs.com> References: <3AB59DE3.801B23C9@csocs.com>
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Also, as a side question: Is there any performance increase/decrease or noticable ping differences in using a queue? What is generally the correlation between the bandwidth limit and the queue size? Just curious. Thanks again. J & C Frazier wrote: > I have a few individuals who are running games servers from their > shell accounts. I don't have a problem with it really, but I would like > > to establish a bandwidth limit on 2 IP's specifically to prevent > possible > problems later on once their hosts become more well known. Right > now I have the following firewall config set up: > > ipfw add 100 pipe 1 ip from any to any in > ipfw add 200 pipe 2 ip from any to any out > ipfw pipe 1 config mask dst-ip 0xffffffff > ipfw pipe 2 config mask src-ip 0xffffffff > > Basically all I have set up is a basic dummynet to monitor bandwidth > usage via cron scripts. I have tried to add other rules to limit the > bandwidth on my customers as shown below: > > ipfw add 100 pipe 1 ip from any to any in > ipfw add 200 pipe 2 ip from any to any out > ipfw pipe 1 config mask dst-ip 0xffffffff bw 256Kbytes/s queue 10Kbytes > ipfw pipe 2 config mask src-ip 0xffffffff bw 256Kbytes/s queue 10Kbytes > > But that effects all IP's on the system and causes a major slowdown. > I'm not extremely familiar with ipfw and what all I can do with it yet > other then what I've read on the man pages. I'm hoping some of you > experts that deal with this type of thing all the time might be able to > enlighten me or give me a few ideas. Thanks. > > J.C. Frazier > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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