From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 23 00:12:05 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F97137B401 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 00:12:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A113543F3F for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 00:12:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h3N7C1kk051868; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 02:12:01 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 02:12:01 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: CARTER Anthony Message-ID: <20030423071201.GC50895@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200304230849.33743.a.carter@intrasoft.lu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200304230849.33743.a.carter@intrasoft.lu> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: limiting download speed... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 07:12:05 -0000 In the last episode (Apr 23), CARTER Anthony said: > I use freebsd at work amidst the sniggles of my MS colleagues... > However, I do have a little question regarding the 2Mbit pipe that we > have... Is there a way that I can limit my downloads to say 50K/secs > rather than pumping 200k/sec. People here don't get too happy when > that happens, so they manage it using d/l managers or such... Is > there a "FreeBSD" equivalent? You can use dummynet and ipfw to limit all traffic to a set bandwidth, or only limit certain ports. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com