Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:02:09 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> To: Jay Kuri <jay@oneway.com> Cc: Jason Terlecki <JTERLECKI@team.look.ca>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Limiting Bandwidth Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102242256090.23493-100000@ren.sasknow.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102242352210.32165-100000@daedal.oneway.com>
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Jay Kuri wrote to Ryan Thompson: > > > > Anyone have an idea how I could limit how much bandwidth specific > > > users can use off a shell. I want to make sure normal users dont use > > > up all the bandwidth, while staff and specific users could use more. > > > > You probably won't be able to do this with ipfw(8) and the traffic shaper > > alone, because you want to restrict bandwidth by user or group. Most > > traffic filters/shapers work at the IP level. They have no notion of > > users or groups, nor should they. > > Actually, You can do this with ipfw. I don't know when it appeared, but > from the ipfw(8) man page on a 4.2 machine: Yikes... I stand corrected..! mouth->open(); mouth->insert(foot); while (fork()); -- Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> Network Administrator, Accounts SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E - Saskatoon, SK - S7H 0W2 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-1161 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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