On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 05:35:05PM -0700, Trevor Talbot wrote:

> I meant in automatic terms.  There have been requests for things like 
> "all hosts in this netblock have a limit of N kb/s each".  This can be 
> solved with a bit of scripting, but some of the resulting rules that 
> have been posted have been scary in length :)

  I misread, and felt some wierd urge to defend ALTQ's honor.

  Rulesets can get scary in length, that seems to be what happens when
  you are regulating large, complicated networks. I have yet to see a
  tool that allows me to manage that as well as pf does.


> PF opens up some neat possibilities for future work on the conditioner, 
> since it no longer makes sense to tie it directly to an interface.  

  I can see the potential, absolutely.
  Just not sure what to do, say, tomorrow, when some of my gateway's
  inbound interfaces get sacked by greedy tcp connections -- since I
  can't regulate that well on the other side (outbound, natted).

  matthew

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