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Date:      Wed, 30 May 2007 18:33:41 +0200
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        deeptech71@gmail.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cant get the damn bandwidth limiter working
Message-ID:  <20070530163341.GA42972@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <465D750A.1050605@gmail.com>
References:  <465849C8.7000300@gmail.com> <20070529150012.7ff9faff@gumby.homeunix.com.> <465D750A.1050605@gmail.com>

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On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 02:58:50PM +0200, deeptech71@gmail.com wrote:
>  RW wrote:
> > On Sat, 26 May 2007 16:52:56 +0200
> > deeptech71@gmail.com wrote:
> >> pf and altq are enabled. My ISP allows 16kB/s upload and 128kB/s
> >> download. I want to use half of that. What should pf.conf contain, to
> >> limit my computer's upload and download speeds? I've tried:
> >>
> >> altq sk0 cbq bandwidth 1576Kb queue { lan, upload, download }
> >> queue lan bandwidth 1000Kb cbq(default)
> >> queue upload bandwidth 64Kb cbq
> >> queue download bandwidth 512Kb cbq
> >> block in all
> >> pass in quick on sk0 from 192.168.0.0/16 queue lan
> >> pass in all on sk0 queue download
> >> block out all
> >> pass out quick on sk0 to 192.168.0.0/16 queue lan
> >> pass out all on sk0 queue upload
> >>
> > AFAIK ALTQ only queues outgoing traffic, and    pass in quick on sk0 fr=
om=20
> > 192.168.0.0/16 queue lan means: send the packet to the lan queue if it'=
s=20
> > routed out via the
> > interface to which "queue lan" is attached, i.e. back out via sk0 -
> > which isn't going to happen.=20
>=20
>  That would explain. So is there any way to limit the speed at which i'm=
=20
>  downloading? Come on I've seen a bunch of software like this for Windows=
 on=20
>  the net!

According to http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/queueing.html it _can_ work
if you have a separate router See the examples.

Roland
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R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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