From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 28 21:16:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0047716A4CE for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 21:16:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from bsdie.tunasafedolphin.org (tunasafedolphin.org [207.44.144.112]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9622743D2F for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 21:16:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from james@tunasafedolphin.org) Received: from webmail.tunasafedolphin.org (bsdie.tunasafedolphin.org [127.0.0.1])i9SLIJ9l029490; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 17:18:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from james@tunasafedolphin.org) Received: from adsl-068-209-252-201.sip.asm.bellsouth.net ([68.209.252.201]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user james@tunasafedolphin.org); by webmail.tunasafedolphin.org with HTTP; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 17:18:19 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <60782.68.209.252.201.1098998299.squirrel@68.209.252.201> In-Reply-To: <54.35f18d2e.2eb2b792@aol.com> References: <54.35f18d2e.2eb2b792@aol.com> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 17:18:19 -0400 (EDT) From: "James Skinner" To: TM4525@aol.com User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal cc: james@tunasafedolphin.org cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dummynet X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 21:16:35 -0000 > In a message dated 10/28/04 12:52:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > james@tunasafedolphin.org writes: >>>Funny, I thought that's what Dummynet did. It seems that you wouldn't >>want to steer a user into a horribly overpriced closed-source >>rate-limiting solutuion when it's available for free in the OS. > >>BTW: Nice email addr. ;) > ---------------------------- > Ah, but its not really "available" for free, because the free ones don't > work > well, aren't supported and don't scale. Plus it seems that unless you > value your time at $2./hr its already cost you more than the $800. to try > to > use the "free" stuff. Are you planning on completely rewriting it yourself > using dummynet as the code base? What good is open source if > the entire code base is nowhere near as good as what you can buy? > You would really struggle with an inadequate open source solution > rather than pay for something that works? > And I wouldn't talk about email addresses, mr "so liberal I can't function > normally in society". AOL buffers the 99% of mails I have no interest in > reading, I can just block the domains of lists I dont feel like dealing > with at any given time without having to unsubscribe and subscribe, > and it uses no disk space or bandwidth in the process. Its ideal (except > for the darned reader). > > > TM > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I agree with some of that, but unless the person has the money to spend, then using dummnynet is acceptable. Not everyone can drop 10+ grand on a nokia firewall that has everything packaged into a nice gui. Regarding the email addr: If you look further, you'll the wink (I was ribbing you). Similar to another one of threads. Obviously, you can dish it out, but can't take it. I have seen your past replys; you offer nothing but abuse. Do you sit around and wait for a newbie to ask a question so you can make him/her feel stupid for asking it? Thx