Hi Jubal,
Jubal Kessler wrote:
Greetings,
Is there a general how-to, or a set of coherent instructions, for
shaping outbound traffic such that when I upload something over my
asymmetric cable-modem pipe, doing so doesn't completely kill my Web
browsing or any other attempts to use my Internet connection?
(To put it another way: When I max out my upstream, and my upstream is
capped lower than my downstream, my downstream becomes useless and I am
forced to wait until the upload finishes before I can resume using the
downstream. This is a problem, and I'd like to solve it.)
I have looked at various ALTQ + pf setups on the Web, but I have one
caveat. I use FreeBSD 6.4 on my home gateway, and it is also using the
default natd server, which relies on an ipfw divert rule. I don't know
if this matters, or if I need to switch from natd to a pf-based NAT setup.
Technically you could run both, for a while years back I was using
pppd's nat, ipfw for the firewall and dummynet (for kids downloads and
stuff or when they reached their monthly quota), and pf for altq on
outbound.
All working perfectly.
Should I use *just* ipfw, or should I switch everything to pf (including
NAT services) and go from there?
Thanks much,
Jubal
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