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Subject: Re: QoS and guaranteed bandwidth
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ovidiue@unixware.ro writes:

> What is the best sollution (and also simple) to guarantee a bandwidth?
> 
> For example if I have an 1024 kbps conection and i want to share
> this to 30 users and also guarantee 32 kbps to every user so if
> one of them is doing intense FTP the others to easely browse the
> net what should I use for that? I am looking for a solution like
> (and better then) HBT on Linux.
> 
> I've googled for a while but there are not so many resources on that.

Try the Handbook; there are several mentions.

On -STABLE, there are two solid answers: dummynet(4) and altq(4).  The
former will be better if you use ipfw(4), the latter if you use pf(4)
[or, I assume, ipf(4)].