From owner-freebsd-ipfw Fri Mar 7 11:27:22 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C77B837B401 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 11:27:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp04.wxs.nl (smtp04.wxs.nl [195.121.6.59]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C42C43F3F for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 11:27:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from akruijff@dds.nl) Received: from 192.168.31.50 ([213.10.151.186]) by smtp04.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id HBE8QA00.TUZ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 20:27:46 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Alex de Kruijff To: "Tracy, John" , Subject: Re: Bandwidth control and counters Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 20:23:18 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200303072023.18345.akruijff@dds.nl> Sender: owner-freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday 07 March 2003 17:44, Tracy, John wrote: > Greetings all, > =09We're putting together a firewall for the primary purpose of > ensuring fairness for a user base of around 600 students. We're > looking at a copy of different models for controlling bandwidth. We > will have an 3 megabit connection to our provider. We were looking at > limiting connections to 128kbps, so each user could download data at > about a megabyte a minute. The only problem with this is that it > prevents students from using the full bandwidth potential when it > might otherwise be unobtrusively available. Are there any good > methods for permitting connections to use all available bandwidth > unless other requests are made--and then fairly divide the available > bandwidth so that it is equally (as much as possible) responsive for > each user? > > And finally a last question... Were we to setup limits on > transfers--like 2gigs in a week per IP address, does anybody know of > any good FAQ's or guides of how to do this well? I use ipa and ipfw for this all. The only problem i can come uit with is=20 that the configurations may be a bit large for you. I'm on a netwerk=20 with a small number of users so this doesn't bother me. I could send you a configurations sample if you like. Let me know. --=20 Best regards/Met vriendelijke groet, Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ipfw" in the body of the message