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Date:      Tue, 30 Apr 2002 14:29:33 -0600
From:      Irwan Hadi <irwanhadi@phxby.engr.usu.edu>
To:        Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Rate limiting FTP traffic
Message-ID:  <20020430142933.A5827@phxby.com>
In-Reply-To: <3CCEFC9D.BE230274@mitre.org>; from jandrese@mitre.org on Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 04:20:45PM -0400
References:  <3CCEFC9D.BE230274@mitre.org>

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On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 04:20:45PM -0400, Jason Andresen wrote:

> I've been looking for a way to rate limit ftp traffic, but so far
> I've had no success.  Is there a way in FreeBSD to limit FTP traffic
> and not affect other traffic on the machine.
> 
> At first I was looking at dummynet, but because FTP chooses ports from
> the empherial port range, I don't see how to make it work.  
> 
> Does anybody know how to do it?  
> 
> Please CC: this directly to me, as I am not on this list.  Thank you.

If you want the easy way, you can try to use pure-ftpd which has built in traffic
shaping capability.

If you want the hard way, you can try to see this
http://www.freebsd-howto.com/HOWTO/Ipfw-HOWTO



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