From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jun 5 00:57:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA01824 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 00:57:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from stingray.ivision.co.uk (stingray.ivision.co.uk [194.154.62.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA01819 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 00:57:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from stingray.ivision.co.uk [194.154.62.72] by stingray.ivision.co.uk with smtp (Exim 0.53 #1) id E0wZXOg-00044N-00; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 08:55:50 +0100 Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 08:55:50 +0100 (BST) From: Manar Hussain To: Luigi Rizzo cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ETinc's Bandwidth limiter In-Reply-To: <199706050712.JAA29055@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Message-ID: Organisation: Internet Vision MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 ? Looks like I've not explained myself too well: the idea is to use a FreeBSD box as a gateway (maybe even the router). i.e.: outside world | FreeBSD box | |---------------| <-- network with web servers on them Manar