From: kami petersen (kokamomigueststars.net)
Date: Mon May 01 2006 - 16:21:58 CDT

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Chris Cameron skrev:
> On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 13:02 -0400, Chris Bullock wrote:
>> Can queues be used to queue overall bandwidth? We have a project where we
>> will be sharing an Internet connection with another company, we will have an
>> IP and they will have an IP each company providing their own firewall. I
>> understand that queuing is able to queue based on protocol, etc on the same
>> box but lets say there is a T1 shared between the companies, The company
>> tells us, you can have one of our IP addresses but you can only use 100k of
>> our bandwidth, can pf do this? I guess this is more bandwitdh throttling
>> more so than queuing.
>> TIA,
>> Chris
>>
>
>
> No one mentioned it, but this'll only work in one direction. It won't
> stop you from saturating the pipe with incoming traffic.
>

so you'd have to set up queueing on the interior interface of your
firewall as well... tcp will throttle back to this cap, but ordering up
a fat udp stream will always get you in trouble.

/k

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