From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 10 05:33:03 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 9B0F42F5 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 05:33:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from vps1.elischer.org (vps1.elischer.org [204.109.63.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 690E78FC08 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 05:33:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from JRE-MBP-2.local (c-50-143-149-146.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [50.143.149.146]) (authenticated bits=0) by vps1.elischer.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q9A5Wu7R006862 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 9 Oct 2012 22:32:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <50750887.10005@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 22:32:55 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120907 Thunderbird/15.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Erich Dollansky Subject: Re: [maybe spam] shape network traffic but give priority to one application References: <20121010074740.0c66cdc0@X220.ovitrap.com> In-Reply-To: <20121010074740.0c66cdc0@X220.ovitrap.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 05:33:03 -0000 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" > >