Kyle,

Traffic Shaping is your friend.
http://m0n0.ch/wall/list/showmsg.php?id=35/88

Yes, it seems complicated... but after some studying, head-scratching  
and pondering, you will understand.

Start with the "Magic shaper wizard", understand what is generated  
and then add a pipe and rule for your "public" users.

Lonnie

On Jan 11, 2007, at 11:42 AM, Kyle A. Gasho wrote:

> I am new to m0n0wall, and would like to know, what is the best way to
> limit the amount of bandwidth that an interface can use?
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> Let me explain more, I have 3 NICS, 1 for WAN 1 for LAN and 1 for
> WAP/"public".  I don't want a user on the WAP/"public" interface to
> download a large file and consume all the bandwidth from the WAN. I
> would like to limit them to 256K.
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> Thanks
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