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| | Traffic Shaping with pf ... |
 | | You identify that the http packets are those that you prefer over the pings, and tell ALTQ to drop incoming pings exceeding, say, a harmless rate of 64 kbit/s and reserve the rest for the more important http packets. |
 | | In fact, if you tell your ALTQ box to limit one stream to, say, 128 kbit/s, and drop all excess packets, that peer will (eventually, by trial and error) come to the conclusion that sending you packets at a rate of about 128 kbit/s is the optimal thing to do. |
 | | If you want to do this with ALTQ, you can do so by limiting outgoing packets on the "other" interface, assuming the box is forwarding all packets between two interfaces. |
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