From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jan 8 01:06:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id BAA22175 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 01:06:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from orion.denverweb.net (root@ppp03.h2net.net [204.227.19.103]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id BAA22137 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 01:04:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from orion (blaine@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.denverweb.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA05952 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 01:14:00 -0700 Message-ID: <32D35748.5E407947@w3page.com> Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 01:14:00 -0700 From: Blaine Minazzi Organization: What, me organized? X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.25 i586) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: isp@freeBSD.org Subject: Re: dedicating bandwidth? References: <199701080752.IAA09144@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > hmm... > > > > i think i did ask about this a while back, but didnt get any answers... > > > > that leads me to assume my message didnt get thru somehow... > > > > anyway, i would like to dedicate bandwidth between my machine, and the > > ethernet machine(s). meaning that the ethernet can not take the full > > ppp bandwidth and also that my machine can not take it all so that there's > > something left for the ethernet users... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I know this is not an answer, but I have to ask. Do you allready have a problem with bandwidth usage? Many times I see people throwing Time/Effort/Money at something that they percieve _may_, _could_be_ , _If the moon is full_ , and I hold my tounge just right, problem. Or, they are not familiar enough with what the operating system is already designed to do. If you are currently experiancing this problem, it may be worth some time and energy. If you just think it might be, or want to be able to micro manage the way FreeBSD works, it might be better to trust the developers of the kernel. They have spent a lot of time, effort, and energy to make this funny little thing called Unix, FreeBSD, etc. do networking and multitasking, bandwidth utilization, etc. *VERY WELL*. I only say this because I have had a number of clients go from other O/S's, and are used to crappy performance due to one machine or system hogging all the resourses. Get them set up right, and it just humms along, working perfectly. A properly tuned out of the box FreeBSD system can really shine, without a lot of hacking. Kudo's to the Core Team. Blaine