Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 11:30:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: freebsd@top-consulting.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FreeBSD Traffic Shaping Message-ID: <20080402112947.E2278@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCGEIOCFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCGEIOCFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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> > The vast majority of people out there have asymmetrical bandwidth > limiting needs - that is, they have a pipe to the Internet and > have a lot more data coming from the Internet to them, than data > going from them to the Internet. Their desire is to somehow make > it so that certain kinds of incoming data meeting certain criteria > are limited. Their problem is that since they don't have control of > the end sending the data to them, they can't do this. but you ROUGHLY can do this with ipfw. by limiting at your end - the other end will slow down. but of course in case of say ping flood or similar things you can't
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