From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jan 14 5:47: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.areti.net (meteora.areti.com [193.118.189.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 451A315052 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 05:47:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ndear@areti.net) Received: from acropolis (acropolis.noc.areti.net [193.118.189.102]) by post.mail.areti.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/Areti-2.0.0) with ESMTP id NAA03501; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 13:47:03 GMT Message-Id: <200001141347.NAA03501@post.mail.areti.net> From: "Nicholas J. Dear" Organization: Areti Internet Ltd. To: Intranova Networking Group Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 13:46:47 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Bandwidth limiting on Switch. Reply-To: ndear@areti.net Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200001141219.MAA29003@post.mail.areti.net> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12b) Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 14 Jan 00, at 8:45, Intranova Networking Group wrote: > 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... Definitely hardware solution. Do you recommend a particular product? Preferably Cisco or 3com? 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