Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 22:32:55 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> To: Erich Dollansky <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> Cc: FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [maybe spam] shape network traffic but give priority to one application Message-ID: <50750887.10005@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20121010074740.0c66cdc0@X220.ovitrap.com> References: <20121010074740.0c66cdc0@X220.ovitrap.com>
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On 10/9/12 5:47 PM, 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? pfsense is a whole OS image and you install it onto a machine. it's what you'd do if you had a spare OC you want to use for traffic shaping etc. internally it uses FreeBSD as the OS and 'pf + altq' as the shaper. If you have a FreeBSD machine up already, and you can pass all the traffic through it then you can do the same and use pf + altq, or you can use ipfw + dummynet. Your choice. > > 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" > >
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