From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 19 17: 3:19 2002 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 1536937B405 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 17:02:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mirapoint2.brutele.be (mirapoint2.brutele.be [212.68.193.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF02943E31 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 17:02:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jylefort@brutele.be) Received: from gateway.lefort.net ([213.189.162.78]) by mirapoint2.brutele.be (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id BBQ51217; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 02:01:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from jsite.lefort.net (jsite.lefort.net [192.168.1.2]) by gateway.lefort.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DEB71539A; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 02:01:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from jsite.lefort.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jsite.lefort.net (Postfix) with SMTP id E92A82304B; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 02:01:35 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 02:01:35 +0200 From: Jean-Yves Lefort To: Nelis Lamprecht Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bandwidth limiting Message-Id: <20020720020135.3e5a2fd3.jylefort@brutele.be> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020719110543.0128ba48@192.96.48.11> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020719110543.0128ba48@192.96.48.11> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Fri, 19 Jul 2002 11:13:44 +0200 Nelis Lamprecht wrote: > I would like to limit bandwidth on a per user basis to my 4.6 box, is > this possible ? Or perhaps limit them on a per ipaddress basis. I have > 2 interfaces( ext and int ) and I am running ipfw. I read somewhere > that you can use pipe with ipfw for this but am having a little > difficulty understanding this and there is very little info on man > pipe. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Hmmm, reading the pipe(2) system call manual will surely not help in this case :) Rather, read dummynet(4). Regards, Jean-Yves Lefort -- Jean-Yves Lefort jylefort@brutele.be http://void.adminz.be/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message