Bandwidth limiting via pf or ipfw ?

ipfw may be more forward to use since its usually easier to comprehend the 
syntax and type it directly on the command line.

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 Jason Hellenthal
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On Apr 2, 2013, at 19:25, Yuri <y...@rawbw.com> wrote:

> For the testing purposes, I would like to be able to control the maximum 
> speed of the interface.
> There is this command 'ifconfig re0 media 10baseT/UTP' that is supposed to 
> lower the speed to 10Mbps. However, it makes interface unusable on my system. 
> All connections are broken, even the router had to be rebooted. Maybe this is 
> the router issue.
> 
> Is there any other, "soft" way to change maximum interface speed to a 
> particular value?
> When somebody sends data too fast, OS sends back ICMP notifications that 
> connection is jammed. My question is, is it possible to impose such condition 
> artificially?
> Is 'ifconfig re0 media 10baseT/UTP' actually supposed to work transparently, 
> or disconnects are to be expected?
> 
> Yuri
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