On 5/11/06, Damian Gerow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm not interested in bandwidth limitations, so it looks like priq is likely my best bet.
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Then I create a queue with a bandwidth limit of 700Kbps.
The man page is a little vague on this point
"The priq scheduler does not support band-width specification." huh? Use cbq if you want to throttle bandwidth to a limit, something like: altq on $ext_if cbq bandwidth $ext_bw queue \ { q_ack_dns, q_fast, q_std, q_slow } # High port traffic, public services, p2p queue q_slow bandwidth 5% priority 0 cbq(borrow) # General tcp, udp, and icmp queue q_std bandwidth 20% priority 1 cbq(default, borrow) # Private and common services queue q_fast bandwidth 25% priority 2 cbq(borrow) # DNS requests and ACKs queue q_ack_dns bandwidth 50% priority 3 cbq(borrow) You need to use cbq. Just do as I did above and allow all the child queues to borrow from the root queue, so q_slow, for instance, may be limited to a mere 1K/s, but only if a higher priority queue is using all of the bandwidth (scp transfer, for instance), otherwise it will borrow from the root queue (376Kb/s in my case) make sure you set queue on pass out rules as well as pass in rules. look at pfctl -vvs queue to measure your queues' thoroughput my full pf.nat+queueing.conf here: http://cvs.1984.ws/cgi-bin/cvsweb/pf/pf.nat%2bqueuing.conf?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup many more here: https://solarflux.org/pf/ you can search in a manpage using / or use the online manpage and your browser's find search for keyword 'bandwidth', and you would have quickly found the line that states priq scheduler does not support bandwidth specification.