From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 10 01:35:03 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFCF4299 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 01:35:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com) Received: from alogreentechnologies.com (alogreentechnologies.com [67.212.224.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B06E8FC0A for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 01:35:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from X220.ovitrap.com ([122.129.201.29]) (authenticated bits=0) by alogreentechnologies.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id q9A0lf5c006339 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2012 18:47:43 -0600 Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 07:47:40 +0700 From: Erich Dollansky To: FreeBSD Net Subject: shape network traffic but give priority to one application Message-ID: <20121010074740.0c66cdc0@X220.ovitrap.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 01:35:03 -0000 Hi, I am again on a very remote location with a pretty slow Internet connection. The problem I would like to solve sounds simple. What is the easiest way to shape the network traffic so that one machine gets most of the bandwidth when needed while all other machines share the remaining bandwidth? Google tells me that pfsense is a good start. Are there better options? Erich