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Date:      Thu, 5 Jun 1997 08:55:50 +0100 (BST)
From:      Manar Hussain <manar@ivision.co.uk>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ETinc's Bandwidth limiter
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.93.970605085229.25125N-100000@stingray.ivision.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <199706050712.JAA29055@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>

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>> 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




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