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Date:      Wed, 16 May 2001 01:37:16 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        "Patrick O'Reilly" <patrick@mip.co.za>
Cc:        ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG, Holtor <holtor@yahoo.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Bandwidth Limiting per IP
Message-ID:  <20010516013716.B26749@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <NDBBIMKICMDGDMNOOCAICEOGCHAA.patrick@mip.co.za>; from "Patrick O'Reilly" on Wed May 16 08:29:46 GMT 2001
References:  <20010516024156.89744.qmail@web11604.mail.yahoo.com> <NDBBIMKICMDGDMNOOCAICEOGCHAA.patrick@mip.co.za>

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In the last episode (May 16), Patrick O'Reilly said:
> Your conclusion is correct - you do need a pipe for each IP with
> 100kbit per pipe.  If you only have 1 pipe then all the IPS will
> SHARE the 100 kbit, which is not what you want.

Actually, you can get away with one pipe, but use the pipe mask keyword
to tell the pipe code to count each internal IP separately.  See the
bottom of the the ipfw manpage; there is an example that does almost
exactly what you're asking, I think.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com

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