On 1/23/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That is, I have a router connecting to the internet through PPP. There are 4 computers (and a DSL modem) connected to the router. The router does not limit or share internet speed evenly, so if I download via TCP at full speed, others complain about slow loading web pages. My comp has a FreeBSD OS. How can I limit my upload and download speed to, say, 0.333 of the speed permitted by my provider? Also, if I had a FreeBSD router, how could I share speed evenly?
You can pretty easily set up a FBSD router to shpe bandwidth like this. I have done exactly that using the PF firewall with ALTQ. Unfortunately, ALTQ is not availible as a loadable module, so if you want to use it, you'll have to recompile the kernel with support enabled. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls-pf.html http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/ that should get you started
BTW: Is it true that are some types of traffic that need higher priority, such as games using UDP, so that data does not lag?
Absolutely it is true. I don't run any gaming through my firewall, but one great example is TCP ACK packets. If you are on an asymmetrical connection (up/down bandwith aren't equal) you should prioritize outgoing TCP ACK packets to the highest level, since this will improve download performance. You might want to look at ports/security/pfw if you're not familiar with pf syntax, and it can make building a ruleset a lot easier, at least for the first time.
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