From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 18 13:18: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60DC337B401 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 13:18:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FBE943E3B for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 13:18:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from pooh.int (mail@pooh.int [10.0.1.2]) by kanga.honeypot.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g8IKHxu4079791 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:17:59 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from kirk by pooh.int with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 17rlGp-0006hk-00 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:17:59 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Traffic shaping - current best practice? References: <20020918210512.Y348-100000@pan.home> From: Kirk Strauser Date: 18 Sep 2002 15:17:59 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20020918210512.Y348-100000@pan.home> Message-ID: <874rcnhx1k.fsf@pooh.int> Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 2002-09-18T20:08:23Z, Byron Schlemmer writes: > 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. The only problem I see is that I know you can use dummynet to limit a connection, but I don't know that it can be used to guarantee bandwidth availability. I'm looking for something closer to a quality-of-service configuration, but I'm not sure how to do that. > Also /usr/share/doc/en/articles/filtering-bridges and > /usr/share/doc/en/books/handbook/bridging.html might prove insightful. > Hope that helps some. It does - thanks. -- Kirk Strauser The Strauser Group - http://www.strausergroup.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message