From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jun 5 00:46:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA01439 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 00:46:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA01426 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 00:46:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id JAA29055; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 09:12:58 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199706050712.JAA29055@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: ETinc's Bandwidth limiter To: manar@ivision.co.uk (Manar Hussain) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 09:12:58 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Manar Hussain" at Jun 4, 97 06:20:24 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Anyone got much experience of using this? We're thinking of using it to > maintain levels of service for a web farm: 1Mb pipe out to the net shared > across a set of machine on 100Mb ethernet (they talk to eachother as well). It looks like what you want (bw management, or probably better, fair routing) should be done at the router, not at the server side. So what are you using to drive your pipe out ? Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________