From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Apr 6 14:08:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA13891 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 14:08:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.keyworld.net (root@mail.keyworld.net [194.21.164.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA13885 for ; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 14:08:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chrism@keyworld.net) Received: from chrism (ppp71.keyworld.net [194.21.164.134]) by mail.keyworld.net (8.8.5/8.8.4) with ESMTP id XAA27968; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 23:04:17 +0200 Message-Id: <199804062104.XAA27968@mail.keyworld.net> From: "Christopher Martin at Home" To: "Anthony Barlow" , "'freebsd-isp@freebsd.org'" , "Ben Schumacher" Subject: Re: Bandwidth limiter for services? Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 23:08:02 +0200 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Here is something I stumbled upon while investigating the T1 cards for > FreeBSD. Check out Emerging Technologies Bandwidth Manager. URL: > http://www.etinc.com/ > > This is something my company has been looking for as well and this looks > like a good product for that. Hope this is what you are looking for. > > - Ben Schumacher > > > At 04:48 PM 4/6/98 +0100, Anthony Barlow wrote: > >Hi everyone > > > >Is there any software/hardware that will allow me to limit the bandwith > >that a partiuclar service users. We currently have a slow 128Kb link > >linking our Cambridge office to our Derby office and we would like to > >limit the bandwidth that people use for web browsing. - Can it be done > >without affecting any other services? I suggest that you check it out though. I think it works by dropping packets. If it does the pipe might be filled by stuff that is already downloaded. This might result in unaccepttable amount of retransmissions from source. So you would not be really saving bandwidth... Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message