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Date:      Wed, 16 Jul 2003 20:09:13 -0300
From:      Antonio Torres <antonio.torres@newspace.net.br>
To:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Bandwidth Limiting Kazaa and friends
Message-ID:  <6.0.0.10.0.20030716200236.02ab7df0@mail.newspace.net.br>
In-Reply-To: <20030716202508.GA81763@energistic.com>

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At 17:25 16/7/2003, you wrote:
>Hey all...
>
>I've been using DUMMYNET to limit the bandwidth to certain of my
>wireless customers. Question came up today:
>
>is there a way to bandwidth limit those programs or ports that Kazaa
>and WinMX and the like use on a system wide basis?
>
>....

Don't use DUMMYNET standalone... use DUMMYNET + src limit !!!

put each "client" on a separate pipe *plus* limiting the number of 
connections 'per client'.

Kazaa (and several "download accelerators") make several connections 
simultaneous.....

`man ipfw` helps You on correct sintaxe....


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Antonio Torres
antonio.torres@newspace.net.br 




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