From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Feb 24 21: 2:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from ren.sasknow.com (ren.sasknow.com [207.195.92.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D48937B4EC for ; Sat, 24 Feb 2001 21:02:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Received: from localhost (ryan@localhost) by ren.sasknow.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA38237; Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:02:09 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:02:09 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: Jay Kuri Cc: Jason Terlecki , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Limiting Bandwidth In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Organization: SaskNow Technologies [www.sasknow.com] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jay Kuri wrote to Ryan Thompson: > > > > Anyone have an idea how I could limit how much bandwidth specific > > > users can use off a shell. I want to make sure normal users dont use > > > up all the bandwidth, while staff and specific users could use more. > > > > You probably won't be able to do this with ipfw(8) and the traffic shaper > > alone, because you want to restrict bandwidth by user or group. Most > > traffic filters/shapers work at the IP level. They have no notion of > > users or groups, nor should they. > > Actually, You can do this with ipfw. I don't know when it appeared, but > from the ipfw(8) man page on a 4.2 machine: Yikes... I stand corrected..! mouth->open(); mouth->insert(foot); while (fork()); -- Ryan Thompson Network Administrator, Accounts SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E - Saskatoon, SK - S7H 0W2 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-1161 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message