[altq 549] Re: Limiting _incoming_ traffic

[Ewald Wasscher <ewald.wasscher@pobox.com>]

Karl Pielorz wrote:
> 
> Chris Cappuccio wrote:
> 
> > ALTQ only affects outgoing traffic when you use a queueing discipline,
> > and when you use a traffic conditioner it affects incoming traffic.
> 
> Remember though, that what's incoming to once interface, can be outgoing to
> another... We have a box with 2 network cards, the traffic going out fxp0 is
> shaped, and the traffic going out fxp1 is shaped (which is effectively the
> traffic that came 'in' from fxp0).

I have a similar situation, my problem is however that I want to prevent
hosts on my internal network from consuming all of my upload bandwidth
to the internet (dl isn't much of a problem, we have plenty). The only
way to do that, as far as I can see now, is to limit the incoming
traffic per internal host on the router.

> 
> It does work, but should be used with care...
> 
> -Karl
> 
> 

Ewald