Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 15:50:29 +0200 (CEST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Claus=20Guttesen?= <cguttesen@yahoo.dk> To: Chris McGee <chris@xecu.net>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPFW Bandwidth throttling? Message-ID: <20030507135029.50565.qmail@web14102.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0305070900170.96202-100000@thunder.xecu.net>
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Hi.
> I am trying to limit outgoing SMTP traffic to about
> 14 Mbps and these are
> the IPFW rules I am using.
>
> ${fwcmd} add pipe 1 tcp from 192.168.0.0/24 to any
> 25 out via dc0
> ${fwcmd} pipe 1 config bw 14Mbit/s
>
> something. I only get about half the bandwidth
I had the same problem until I was told to add 'out
xmit' to my config. You may want to change your line
to:
${fwcmd} add pipe 1 tcp from 192.168.0.0/24 to any out
xmit dc0
This should inform ipfw to parse the rule only once.
> behavior? Is there something wrong with the rule
> I'm running?
>
If the proposed change isn't a valid ipfw-syntax, you
have to upgrade to ipfw2 which is the default in
FreeBSD 5.x, whereas FreeBSD 4.x defaults to ipfw ver.
1. Read the man-page for ipfw on how to upgrade.
There is probably a different approach staying with
ipfw ver. 1, but I'm unaware of that.
Regards
Claus
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