On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 03:18:05PM -0700, Trevor Talbot wrote: > simple rate limiting, where traffic exceeding the limit is dropped. > While the ALTQ framework does have that capability, it isn't exposed in > PF. It lacks the flexibility that most people would want anyway (rough > approximation of sharing, per-host limits, etc).
You could absolutely define many conditioners on an interface with ALTQ, and match to those conditioners by host -- effectively making crude per-host limits. Losing this feature in the pf-altq mashup was unfortunate, it was an excellent, pragmatic solution for controlling inbound bandwidth usage. matthew
