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Date:      Sun, 7 Oct 2007 16:07:22 +0200
From:      Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: I am looking for a bandwidth limiter tool as to time andkilobytes.
Message-ID:  <200710071607.22529.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
In-Reply-To: <1c6701c808e3$28402530$dc96eed5@ihlasnetym>
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On Sunday 07 October 2007 15:08:30 Halid Faith wrote:

> I had a look at the pf but I could not find what I looked for.
>
> For instance, I have a ip block  for my customer.  I want to limit it by 1
> Gbyte traffic for a week.

That's not bandwidth, which is a why a firewall doesn't support it. Bandwidth 
is how /fast/ you can travel, traffic is how /far/ you can travel.

> I also want to monitor that.
> How can I do with pf or another tool ?

If you assign each customer a pf queue, you can use the output of `pfctl -vsq' 
as your base for monitoring. I don't know of any ready-made packages, maybe 
someone else or over on isp@ they know.

-- 
Mel



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