Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 19:14:14 +0100 From: Steven <steven@trance.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Fair bandwidth division Message-ID: <01100319141400.00382@kyle.offline.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.2.20011003165952.00a27c70@mail.vicyouth.com> References: <5.0.0.25.2.20011003165952.00a27c70@mail.vicyouth.com>
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Hi, I have a freebsd 4.1 machine running as a natd router for my home network. In recent weeks my housemates have started using the file sharing program kazaa, which downloads its files from several sources at once in an attempt to saturate as much bandwidth as possible. This is a bit of a problem, as I have have found when one person is making a download with it and using maybe 65k/sec, others in the house (namely me) get a top speed of maybe 0.5k/sec (from sites which can easily shift at a much higher speeds). I do not wish to divide up the bandwidth on a permenant basis - it makes no sense as a lot of the time there may only be one person using the net connection. I would however like to find a way to dynamically divide the bandwidth "fairly", so that one computer cannot hog all the bandwidth when others are trying to use the connection too. Is there a way of doing this? I've done a few searches but cannot see anything obvious. Thanks Steven To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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