On 10/9/12 5:47 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote:
Hi,
I am again on a very remote location with a pretty slow Internet
connection. The problem I would like to solve sounds simple.
What is the easiest way to shape the network traffic so that one
machine gets most of the bandwidth when needed while all other machines
share the remaining bandwidth?
Google tells me that pfsense is a good start. Are there better options?
pfsense is a whole OS image and you install it onto a machine.
it's what you'd do if you had a spare OC you want to use for traffic
shaping etc.
internally it uses FreeBSD as the OS and 'pf + altq' as the shaper.
If you have a FreeBSD machine up already, and you can pass all the
traffic through
it then you can do the same and use pf + altq, or you can use ipfw +
dummynet.
Your choice.
Erich
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