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Date:      Wed, 27 Feb 2002 11:05:13 +0000
From:      Ceri <setantae@submonkey.net>
To:        Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com>
Cc:        FBSD-Q <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: IPFW/Dummynet - Internet Access
Message-ID:  <20020227110513.GA4011@rhadamanth>
In-Reply-To: <20020227104755.GC23054@ns2.wananchi.com>
References:  <20020227104755.GC23054@ns2.wananchi.com>

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On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 01:47:55PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:

Hey Wash,

> I'd like to give Internet access to some residents of a building BUT I want
> to have every user on their own private network (diff IP, no broadcast
> traffic to the other) and also do bandwidth limiting.
> 
> QUESTION 1: Is it possible that I can configure each port on switch as a unique vlan,
>             have the port that your FreeBSD box connects to pass all vlans, and then
>             setup 3 VLAN interfaces on the FreeBSD box, one for each VLAN/client?

Yes, it's called a trunk port in Cisco.

>             My problem is that I don't want the clients/vlans to see one another.

No problem - just don't route them to each other.

>             I am being told that this is not the way vlans work, that vlans will require
>             multiple switches, yes???

I don't believe that to be correct.
You can use VLANs with just one switch.

> QUESTION 2: I've already run IPFW on a FreeBSD box and while I am new to ipfw, I
> see it's already running fine, bar for the tuning that it will require to achieve
> the goal. If I want to do bandwidth limiting using dummynet, using the instructions
> at www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ , at what point in rc.ipfw do I introduce the
> dummynet rules, at the end???

Can't answer that one.
Can't you just use pipes (or does that require dummynet) ?

> QUESTION 3: I also want to control bandwidth for every client. Client 1 needs on 32K bandwidth
>             while Client 2 needs 64K. The total bandwidth available on the ooif of the FreeBSD
>             box is 256K (DSL). ipfw/dummynet will allow me to do this???

Definitely.

Ceri

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