Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 21:56:47 +0200 From: deeptech71@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cant get the damn bandwidth limiter working Message-ID: <465F287F.1080801@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070530163341.GA42972@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <465849C8.7000300@gmail.com> <20070529150012.7ff9faff@gumby.homeunix.com.> <465D750A.1050605@gmail.com> <20070530163341.GA42972@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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Roland Smith wrote:
> 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 from
>>> 192.168.0.0/16 queue lan means: send the packet to the lan queue if it's
>>> routed out via the
>>> interface to which "queue lan" is attached, i.e. back out via sk0 -
>>> which isn't going to happen.
>> That would explain. So is there any way to limit the speed at which i'm
>> downloading? Come on I've seen a bunch of software like this for Windows on
>> 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
Yes but is it possible to set it up as a DownLoadAltqThing on a computer with 1
net interface? (I don't have the hardware to set up other topologies.)
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