Some Firewall Tricks

FireQOS Reference
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Contents
1 FireQOS Reference 1.1 Running and Configuring FireQOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1.1 1.1.2 1.2 fireqos(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . fireqos.conf(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 2 5 8 8 10 14 16 16 17 23

Organising Traffic with FireQOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2.1 1.2.2 1.2.3 fireqos-interface(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . fireqos-class(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . fireqos-match(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Optional Parameters for FireQOS Commands . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3.1 1.3.2 1.3.3 fireqos-params(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . fireqos-params-class(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . fireqos-params-match(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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1.1.1

FireQOS Reference
Running and Configuring FireQOS
fireqos(1)

NAME fireqos - an easy to use but powerful traffic shaping tool SYNOPSIS fireqos CONFIGFILE [start | debug] [ – conf-arg . . . ] fireqos { stop | clear_all_qos } fireqos status [name [ dump [class]]] fireqos { dump | tcpdump } name class [ tcpdump-arg . . . ] fireqos { drops | overlimits | requeues } name DESCRIPTION FireQOS is a helper to assist you configure traffic shaping on Linux. Run without any arguments, fireqos will present some help on usage. When given CONFIGFILE, fireqos will use the named file instead of /etc/firehol/fireqos.conf as its configuration. The parameter name always refers to an interface name from the configuration file. The parameter class always refers to a named class within a named interface. It is possible to pass arguments for use by...