Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 10:30:24 -0700 From: "Charles Mauch" <cpm@yoonax.net> To: "Charles Henrich" <henrich@sigbus.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Network Bandwdith Prioritization Message-ID: <NDBBJECCALJAGLIEMPKIKEDMCNAA.cpm@yoonax.net> In-Reply-To: <20000427095432.F63681@sigbus.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Charles Henrich > Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 9:55 AM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Network Bandwdith Prioritization > > > Does anyone out there know of anything that would allow me to give priority to > certain types of data moving around our network? So far all i have been able > to find is software that allows you to limit. What I'd like to say is > "Everything is open, until packets of type X start coming through, then limit > everyone else except these packets" > > Good for any situation involving real-time media transmissions.. I really don't know what the status of this kind of thing is with FreeBSD is, but I'd love to find out. ;) I do know that a lot of Cisco's new routers support a "QOS" (Quality of service) bit that places priorities on certain types of packets. EG: A Voice over IP phone call usually gets a higher QOS bit than say a data request, with Video somewhere in-between ;) I'm really not doing justice to the idea, but here's a whitepaper on it... http://www.cisco.com/cpress/cc/td/cpress/fund/ith2nd/it2446.htm 3com usually is up to speed on this sort of stuff too, but they haven't sent me any info on it yet. Their new line of routers(phoneswitches) probably supports something similar but like cisco, proprietary... If you find out that FreeBSD does have this kind of capability, i'd LOVE to hear about it. It might be enough to get my boss to consider buying more bsd boxes for me to play with. ;) It seems that convergence is the wave of the future. Setting up key systems and routers is pretty much the same when you get past the acronym barrier. It also seems that Microsoft is really starting to go nuts with it as well. I'm starting to see a lot of products that tie the telephony side into Exchange and NT services. Charles Mauch --- Email: cpm@yoonax.net / Finger for PGP Public key PGP Fingerprint: B02C B98B 02A5 3D76 8C74 B24F 9279 337C This email was generated by a School of Stealth Midgets To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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