Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:50:40 +0200 From: Maxim Tuliuk <mt@primats.org.ua> To: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Traffic Shaping with pf ... Message-ID: <20051117155040.GB86099@top.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <200511162319.58857.max@love2party.net> References: <437BB031.9090504@seton.org> <200511162319.58857.max@love2party.net>
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On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 23:19 +0100, Max Laier wrote: > > 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 > sent to you! It's impossible. The only way to do it is to limit *outbound* > traffic on an upstream router. But if I'm an ISP, I have to control inbound traffic (botnets, contract agreements etc); in this case rate limit is the simplist and cheapest way -- Maxim Tuliuk WWW: http://primats.org.ua/~mt/ ICQ: 21134222 The bike is absolute freedom of moving
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