Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 21:08:23 +0100 (BST) From: Byron Schlemmer <freebsd-questions@byron.me.uk> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Traffic shaping - current best practice? Message-ID: <20020918210512.Y348-100000@pan.home> In-Reply-To: <87elbri05i.fsf@pooh.int>
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On 18 Sep 2002, Kirk Strauser wrote: > I know that someone asks this question every now and then, but it's the kind > of thing that can change over time, so I ask again: > > I want to use a FreeBSD firewall to provide bandwidth guarantees to > customers. Specifically, several hosts will be sharing a 512Kbps pipe. > Some of those hosts are no-cost (read: no service commitment on my part), > but I may be taking on clients who would be paying for a guaranteed rate > (said rate being substantially less than 512Kbps). > > I'm looking for a solution that would allow the non-paying hosts to have > full use of the bandwidth as long as the paying hosts are idle, but which > would ensure that the paying customers have their full bandwidth available > any time they need it. > > I've used both ipfw and ipfilter. I have no particular preference, although > a solution that supports bridging would be a bonus (which I think will limit > me to ipfw, but I'm not certain). > > Any suggestions? Best practice? Well I'm not sure what that would be but to accomplish most of this see 'man dummynet'. Very easy to setup and highly configurable. Also /usr/share/doc/en/articles/filtering-bridges and /usr/share/doc/en/books/handbook/bridging.html might prove insightful. Hope that helps some. - byron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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