From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jun 5 16:14:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA12793 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 16:14:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ohm.ingsala.unal.edu.co ([168.176.15.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA12774 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 16:14:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unalmodem.usc.unal.edu.co (unalmodem11.usc.unal.edu.co [168.176.3.41]) by ohm.ingsala.unal.edu.co (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA07130; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 18:15:13 -0500 (COT) Message-ID: <3396FBEF.35C1@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 10:48:31 -0700 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: Universidad Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Manar Hussain CC: Luigi Rizzo , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ETinc's Bandwidth limiter References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk This can be done, consult with Ethinc, they have FreeBSD hackers and the last time I saw they were even re-selling FreeBSD. Pedro. Manar Hussain wrote: > > >> 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