From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 30 13:29:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from phxby.engr.usu.edu (phxby.engr.usu.edu [129.123.21.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7699937B400 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 13:29:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by phxby.engr.usu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id B7F39B04B7; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 14:29:33 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 14:29:33 -0600 From: Irwan Hadi To: Jason Andresen Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rate limiting FTP traffic Message-ID: <20020430142933.A5827@phxby.com> Mail-Followup-To: Jason Andresen , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3CCEFC9D.BE230274@mitre.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3CCEFC9D.BE230274@mitre.org>; from jandrese@mitre.org on Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 04:20:45PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 04:20:45PM -0400, Jason Andresen wrote: > I've been looking for a way to rate limit ftp traffic, but so far > I've had no success. Is there a way in FreeBSD to limit FTP traffic > and not affect other traffic on the machine. > > At first I was looking at dummynet, but because FTP chooses ports from > the empherial port range, I don't see how to make it work. > > Does anybody know how to do it? > > Please CC: this directly to me, as I am not on this list. Thank you. If you want the easy way, you can try to use pure-ftpd which has built in traffic shaping capability. If you want the hard way, you can try to see this http://www.freebsd-howto.com/HOWTO/Ipfw-HOWTO To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message