From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 10 15:12:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA10967 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 15:12:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA10960 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 15:12:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA17900; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 15:11:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdd17878; Thu Sep 10 22:11:05 1998 Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 15:10:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: User MEASL cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bandwidth Throttling In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG there are a few bandwidth throttlers but they usually can only throttle "OUTGOING" sessions as incoming sessions are controlled by the equipment at the ISPs site. Luigi's dummynet code (see the archives of the 'current, hackers and net mailing lists) can do some inbound throttling using queues in incoming sessions. I haven't tried it but hey give it a try... :-) On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, User MEASL wrote: > Does anybody know where (if?) I can get some kind of bandwidth throttling > code for FBSD? The object is to create "virtual" connections of a > particular size for each user (i.e. some users on the ethernet can > use wire speeds, some get modem speeds, some get the middle ground)? > > I know there is hardware out there that does this (and at a *very* > hefty price too!), but that's not an option here... Besides, I'd > like to run it on our FBSD routers.... > > > Yours, > J.A. Terranson > sysadmin@mfn.org > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message