<snip> > only found solutions with ipfw. I can't afford taking down the server to > switch to ipfw. Any suggestion would be highly appreciated. If there is > any way of doing this on the host (running Windows XP), it would also be > nice. Thank you very much.
1: You don't have to take down the machine to run "ipfw" -- it can normally be loaded as a kernel module 2: You don't have to "switch" to "ipfw". I'm using "IFilter" and "ipfw" at the same time: "IPFilter" to control what traffic is allowed, and "ipfw" to limit bandwidth selectively. If both packet filters are running a packet has to get through both to survive. -- David Pick