From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 28 22:13:18 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 B6F8416A4CE for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 22:13:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from imo-d21.mx.aol.com (imo-d21.mx.aol.com [205.188.144.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5024843D5A for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 22:13:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from TM4525@aol.com) Received: from TM4525@aol.com by imo-d21.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r3.8.) id q.143.3700cc48 (3842); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 18:13:13 -0400 (EDT) From: TM4525@aol.com Message-ID: <143.3700cc48.2eb2c8f9@aol.com> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 18:13:13 EDT To: james@tunasafedolphin.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5114 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 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 22:13:18 -0000 In a message dated 10/28/04 5:18:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time, james@tunasafedolphin.org writes: > 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. A commercial add-on for FreeBSD is $800. Half a weeks salary for a marginal programmer, and it actually works. Unless you live in Russia (or the Russian Federation or whatever the heck they call it now) and make $22/week I dont see the point of turturing yourself.