From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 7 13:50:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from milquetoast.cs.mcgill.ca (milquetoast.CS.McGill.CA [132.206.2.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9107837BED6 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 13:50:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrewb@milquetoast.cs.mcgill.ca) Received: (from andrewb@localhost) by milquetoast.cs.mcgill.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA03042 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 16:50:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 16:50:32 -0400 From: Andrew BOGECHO To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Port throttling Message-ID: <20000807165032.S483@cs.mcgill.ca> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.15i In-Reply-To: ; from Grandpa Walrus on Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 04:52:25PM -0500 Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, CANADA Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 7 16:48:32 EDT 2000 Hi, I believe that ipfw does it. Have a look at the man page for more info. Although, I am sure there are other ways, this should do the trick. Andrew. On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 04:52:25PM -0500, Grandpa Walrus wrote: > Is there a good way, under FreeBSD 3.x (or 4.x, or whatever) to tell the > BSD system that a given interface has a maximum speed of, say, 256k? > > i.e. > > rl0 - 10baseT (Gateway to router) > rl1 - 128k (LAN interface) > rl2 - 256k (Client's Dedicated Server) > rl3 - 256k (Client's Dedicated Server) > > This would be used to prevent client networks (co-located) from utilizing > more bandwidth than they should be, to avoid clogging our main outward > pipe. > > Alternatively, is there an appliance that could do this? (a managed > switch/hub, perhaps?) This would be the preferable solution, but a > FreeBSD system would probably be less costly. > > Any help you could give would be greatly appreciated > > ----------- > Robert Wall sales@web-walrus.com > Web Walrus Media > 405 S Farwell St #23C > Eau Claire, WI 54701 (715) 855-0189 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message