Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 23:19:47 +0100 From: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> To: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org Cc: Matthew Grooms <mgrooms@seton.org> Subject: Re: Traffic Shaping with pf ... Message-ID: <200511162319.58857.max@love2party.net> In-Reply-To: <437BB031.9090504@seton.org> References: <437BB031.9090504@seton.org>
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--nextPart8147444.O8u2PtQztv Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 16 November 2005 23:18, Matthew Grooms wrote: > I have a couple of firewalls running freebsd 5.4 and pf and was > planning to use ALTQ for traffic shaping. But after doing a bit of > reading, it would seem that ALTQ only works on traffic passing outbound > on an interface. Since most of the traffic passing through my firewall > is http and ftp traffic, the inbound direction is the path being > saturated. Did I read the ALTQ documentation wrong or is there another > mechanism available for use with pf that could help me prioritize > bandwidth usage? You can not control inbound traffic! You can not control what other people= =20 sent to you! It's impossible. The only way to do it is to limit *outbound= *=20 traffic on an upstream router. =2D-=20 /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News --nextPart8147444.O8u2PtQztv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDe7COXyyEoT62BG0RApMOAJ92eDkfxCtlrIn8TOdG2kzwLEpHDgCfV93C OJsmnUGbbCXGxLAa6NzGlU4= =3jqU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart8147444.O8u2PtQztv--
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