Max Laier wrote:
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.
Max,
As always, thanks for your reply. Sounds like you may have heard this
question once or twice ;) Sorry for being naive.
I understand what you are saying and this makes sense to me. But would
it stand to reason that if you limit the rate of packets in a TCP stream
that the windowing would slow the generation of traffic from the source
host? I understand UDP is another animal all together.
Do pipes in ipfw only effect outbound traffic on an interface?
Thanks,
-Matthew
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