From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 28 8:42:20 2003 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 B9C7D37B401 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 08:42:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from madscience.volumen.net (hickey51.micro-mania.net [208.32.118.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBCF843FB1 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 08:42:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shane@howsyournetwork.com) Received: from daneel.volumen.net (daneel.volumen.net [10.252.238.73]) by madscience.volumen.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h1SGgIV10247 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 09:42:18 -0700 Subject: rate-limiting options From: Shane Hickey To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Organization: How's your network? Message-Id: <1046450538.11865.200.camel@daneel> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.1- Date: 28 Feb 2003 09:42:18 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Howdy all, I'm looking for some suggestions for ratelimiting NNTP traffic on my network. I'm on a wireless connection and when I fire up my newsreader it hogs bandwidth and dominates the radio. While this is good for me ;), my ISP doesn't care too much for it. My firewall is a 5.0-release box using ipfilter and ipnat. I've read about dummynet, but it seems that I'd need to build ipfw rules for it. I've also heard some talk about ALTQ. Anyone have any reccomendations of one over the other. Do you need to recompile the kernel for ALTQ or is it applied via patches or something? Thanks, Shane -- Shane Hickey : Network/System Consultant GPG KeyID: 777CBF3F Key fingerprint: 254F B2AC 9939 C715 278C DA95 4109 9F69 777C BF3F Listening to: 16-Nirvana-Spank_'thru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message