From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 18 10:40:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cliff.i-plus.net (cliff.i-plus.net [209.100.20.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E139537B866 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2000 10:40:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from troy@picus.com) Received: from arcadia (arcadia.i-plus.net [209.100.20.198]) by cliff.i-plus.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA03790 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2000 13:40:08 -0500 (EST) From: "Troy Settle" To: Subject: IPFW Pipes / dummy net Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 13:39:04 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG All, What is the practical limit on the number of pipes that FreeBSD's IPFW can handle? Dozens? Hundreds? Thousands? Tens of thousands? The application I have in mind, is setting up all our web hosting / colocations behind a FreeBSD box, and filter everyone through IPFW to control and monitor bandwidth usage. TIA, -Troy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message