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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..!

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