From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jan 14 5:43:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from intranova.net (blacklisted.intranova.net [209.3.31.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3D19F155DE for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 05:43:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from oogali@intranova.net) Received: (qmail 52818 invoked by uid 1001); 14 Jan 2000 08:45:36 -0000 Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 08:45:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Intranova Networking Group To: "Nicholas J. Dear" Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bandwidth limiting on Switch. In-Reply-To: <200001141219.MAA29003@post.mail.areti.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Either you can use a hardware solution (Ethernet switch) or you can use a software solution, which includes the dummynet bandwidth limiting/throttling feature in the FreeBSD kernel. Look at the 'ipfw' man page for more information on configuration issues and such... Omachonu Ogali Intranova Networking Group On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Nicholas J. Dear wrote: > Hi, > > We're about to start doing some co-location, and we will need to restrict the > bandwidth to each machine. I'm assuming we need some sort of switch with > bandwidth throttling capabilities? > > We'd need to throttle from 32K, or 64K upwards, in 64K increments. > > Could anyone recommend a particular product, or how they do the job? > TIA. > N. > -- > Nicholas J. Dear > Mail: ndear@areti.net Tel: +44 (0)20-8402-4041 > Areti Internet Ltd., http://www.areti.co.uk/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message