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Date:      18 Sep 2002 15:17:59 -0500
From:      Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Traffic shaping - current best practice?
Message-ID:  <874rcnhx1k.fsf@pooh.int>
In-Reply-To: <20020918210512.Y348-100000@pan.home>
References:  <20020918210512.Y348-100000@pan.home>

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At 2002-09-18T20:08:23Z, Byron Schlemmer <freebsd-questions@byron.me.uk> writes:

> Best practice? Well I'm not sure what that would be but to accomplish most
> of this see 'man dummynet'. Very easy to setup and highly
> configurable.

The only problem I see is that I know you can use dummynet to limit a
connection, but I don't know that it can be used to guarantee bandwidth
availability.  I'm looking for something closer to a quality-of-service
configuration, but I'm not sure how to do that.

> Also /usr/share/doc/en/articles/filtering-bridges and
> /usr/share/doc/en/books/handbook/bridging.html might prove insightful.

> Hope that helps some.

It does - thanks.
-- 
Kirk Strauser
The Strauser Group - http://www.strausergroup.com/

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