On Wednesday 16 November 2005 23:18, Matthew Grooms wrote: > I have a couple of firewalls running freebsd 5.4 and pf and was > planning to use ALTQ for traffic shaping. But after doing a bit of > reading, it would seem that ALTQ only works on traffic passing outbound > on an interface. Since most of the traffic passing through my firewall > is http and ftp traffic, the inbound direction is the path being > saturated. Did I read the ALTQ documentation wrong or is there another > mechanism available for use with pf that could help me prioritize > bandwidth usage?
You can not control inbound traffic! You can not control what other people sent to you! It's impossible. The only way to do it is to limit *outbound* traffic on an upstream router. -- /"\ Best regards, | [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News
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