From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jun 5 16:37:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA13959 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 16:37:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from stingray.ivision.co.uk (stingray.ivision.co.uk [194.154.62.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA13949 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 16:37:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from stingray.ivision.co.uk [194.154.62.72] by stingray.ivision.co.uk with smtp (Exim 0.53 #1) id E0wZm3v-00075X-00; Fri, 6 Jun 1997 00:35:23 +0100 Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 00:35:23 +0100 (BST) From: Manar Hussain Reply-To: Manar Hussain To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ETinc's Bandwidth limiter In-Reply-To: <3396FBEF.35C1@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Message-ID: Organisation: Internet Vision MIME-Version: 1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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. If "Ethinc" = my ETinc = www.etinc.com then I am well aware that "this can be done" - my question was in fact has anyone done it with this approach and if so what were there positive/negative experiences. >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