Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 10:48:31 -0700 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> To: Manar Hussain <manar@ivision.co.uk> Cc: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ETinc's Bandwidth limiter Message-ID: <3396FBEF.35C1@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> References: <Pine.GSO.3.93.970605085229.25125N-100000@stingray.ivision.co.uk>
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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
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