Building a transparent traffic-shaping bridge
Sean September 24th, 2007
I’ve recently had the need to create a box capable of transparently traffic-shaping traffic across a single ethernet connection.
Normally, I’d go for some kind of Linux solution, but after doing a bit of research it looked like one of the BSD’s with pf/ALTQ would be the way to go. After trying out a couple of popular ready-made “appliances” (m0n0wall, pfsense) I decided that the best, most flexible way, would be to get my hands dirty and roll my own.
This post is just a quick summary of the active configuration at the time of writing, mainly for my future reference. So, without further ado, here’s what I came up with…
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