On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 03:56:58PM +0800, Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote: > Hi, In the Linux netfilter world, there exists a kernel/netfilter > patch called iplimit which does what the subject mention > > Is there anything similar in freebsd or can this be emulated via ipfw > in any form
of course :) there is a "limit" option in ipfw which does this. Check the manpage in a recent FreeBSD (4.5) Having implemented it, I still believe that it makes a lot more sense to limit bandwidth using dummynet pipes rather than number of connections (which can be widely different in resource usage). cheers luigi > > http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/HOWTO/netfilter-extensions-HOWTO.html#toc3.3 > > Regards, Yusuf > > -- > Yusuf Goolamabbas > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message