From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 10 01:47:36 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 72972517 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 01:47:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pprocacci@datapipe.com) Received: from EXFESMQ03.datapipe-corp.net (exfesmq03.datapipe.com [64.27.120.67]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27CC28FC12 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 01:47:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nat.myhome (192.168.128.103) by EXFESMQ03.datapipe-corp.net (192.168.128.28) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.2.318.1; Tue, 9 Oct 2012 21:46:23 -0400 Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 20:46:46 -0500 From: "Paul A. Procacci" To: Erich Dollansky Subject: Re: shape network traffic but give priority to one application Message-ID: <20121010014646.GZ56954@nat.myhome> References: <20121010074740.0c66cdc0@X220.ovitrap.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121010074740.0c66cdc0@X220.ovitrap.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Originating-IP: [192.168.128.103] Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: FreeBSD Net 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 01:47:36 -0000 On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 07:47:40AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Now sure about pfsense, but I use ipfw w/ weighted queues pretty effectivel= y. ~Paul ________________________________ This message may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are= not the intended recipient, please advise us immediately and delete this m= essage. See http://www.datapipe.com/legal/email_disclaimer/ for further inf= ormation on confidentiality and the risks of non-secure electronic communic= ation. If you cannot access these links, please notify us by reply message = and we will send the contents to you.