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Date:      Wed, 14 May 1997 17:35:18 -0400
From:      dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, mcnicholl@real.com (David Sean McNicholl)
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Limiting Bandwidth.
Message-ID:  <3.0.32.19970514173510.008f69d0@etinc.com>

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At 10:08 PM 5/14/97 +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 	Other than dummynet ( http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ ), does anyone of 
>> bandwidth limiting software. The obvious limitation to dummynet is that it 
>> aonly restricts tcp.
>
>it is not difficult to limit UDP as well, you clone the two functions
>tcp_ip_input() and tcp_ip_output() with almost identical ones,
>udp_ip_input() and udp_ip_output, and establish the proper calls between
>the udp and ip layers. You can use the same (global) bw limit for both
>TCP and UDP, or set up different limits for TCP and UDP (e.g. to limit
>NFS or multicast traffic)...
>
>I have not the time to work on it now, but it is not complex, really.

I've heard of a pretty neat product that limits bandwidth for all types
of traffic, even by IP address! :-)

See http://www.etinc.com 


Dennis



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