From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 16 13:50:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92B3537B400 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:50:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from host213-120-96-183.in-addr.btopenworld.com (host213-120-96-183.in-addr.btopenworld.com [213.120.96.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E65F43E65 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:50:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dom@host213-120-96-183.in-addr.btopenworld.com) Received: by host213-120-96-183.in-addr.btopenworld.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 3946F669; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 21:51:09 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 21:51:09 +0100 From: Dominic Marks To: Lasse Laursen Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Traffic Shaping? Message-ID: <20020916205109.GC24565@gallium> References: <0be801c25db3$97880c40$3c00010a@area51> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0be801c25db3$97880c40$3c00010a@area51> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 09:02:14PM +0200, Lasse Laursen wrote: > Hi all, > > Setup summary: > > We have a server that runs some free hosting - we would like to limit the > max bandwidth usage to 40 MBit. > > We have one network card in the machine and we would like to put a limit on > the usage of bandwidth. I have had a look at mod_throttle but according to > the documentation it simply denies connections to the webserver (Apache) > once the bandwidth limit has been reached. > > Is there any way to easy shape the traffic (we need as little downtime as > possible.)? There is dummynet, which isn't really designed for this purpose, but can do it. There is also altq, which is designed for it. man dummynet && http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/kjc/kjc/software.html I believe the Romanian BSD User Group is helping to organise the import of altq into the main FreeBSD source tree (?). > Could you please reply to my email address as well as the list - :-) > > Thanks in advance. > > Regards > -- > Lasse Laursen - Systems Developer > NetGroup A/S, St. Kongensgade 40H, DK-1264 K?benhavn K, Denmark > Phone: +45 3370 1526 - Fax: +45 3313 0066 - Web: www.netgroup.dk > > - We don't surf the net, we make the waves. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Dominic Marks << dominic_marks at btinternet.com >> Computer & Politics Geek To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message