PF + ALTQ - Bandwidth per customer

Peter Jeremy peterjeremy at optushome.com.au
Mon Dec 1 23:56:38 PST 2008


On 2008-Dec-01 17:08:40 -0600, "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman at gmail.com> wrote:
>So I would like to hear some ideas on how we could use FreeBSD or any other BSD
>to limit bandwidth per customer( say one customer (with root access)
>per server )

That description sounds like it simplifies to "limit bandwidth based on
IP address" - which is fairly trivial for ipfw+dummynet or pf+altq.

ipfw+dummynet can also filter on uid/gid but I believe there are some
race conditions in that code

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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