This is not working for me. I tried it out on a filesharing (AFP) connection between 2 computers on my home network. From one computer I mounted the hard drive of the second computer. I then transferred a 65 MB file and found that I was getting a transfer speed of over 20 MB/s on my gigabit ethernet network. Then I tried the commands to limit the transfer speed as follows...

sudo ipfw pipe 1 config bw 1MByte/s
sudo ipfw add 1 pipe 1 src-port 548

I then transferred the file again and my transfer speed dropped dramatically, but it dropped to 5 MB/s instead of 1 MB/s. I played around with the commands but no matter what speed I set it always transfers at 5 MB/s. When I delete the rule and the pipe my transfer speed again shoots to over 20 MB/s, so it is doing something but it does not limit the transfer speed as set.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

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Are you measuring the speed in megaBytes, or megabits? 1MByte/s is about 8Mbits/s... That could be one explanation.

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I've tried ALL of the ones listed here, AFP simply seems to NOT listen to the ipfw...

All i want to do is regulate AFP bandwidth on my network, anybody have a way to do that?

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