From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 28 20:59:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 340D016A4CE for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:59:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from imo-d06.mx.aol.com (imo-d06.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B066143D45 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:59:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from TM4525@aol.com) Received: from TM4525@aol.com by imo-d06.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r3.8.) id q.54.35f18d2e (4320); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:58:58 -0400 (EDT) From: TM4525@aol.com Message-ID: <54.35f18d2e.2eb2b792@aol.com> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:58:58 EDT To: james@tunasafedolphin.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5114 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dummynet X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:59:18 -0000 In a message dated 10/28/04 12:52:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time, james@tunasafedolphin.org writes: >>Funny, I thought that's what Dummynet did. It seems that you wouldn't >want to steer a user into a horribly overpriced closed-source >rate-limiting solutuion when it's available for free in the OS. >BTW: Nice email addr. ;) ---------------------------- Ah, but its not really "available" for free, because the free ones don't work well, aren't supported and don't scale. Plus it seems that unless you value your time at $2./hr its already cost you more than the $800. to try to use the "free" stuff. Are you planning on completely rewriting it yourself using dummynet as the code base? What good is open source if the entire code base is nowhere near as good as what you can buy? You would really struggle with an inadequate open source solution rather than pay for something that works? And I wouldn't talk about email addresses, mr "so liberal I can't function normally in society". AOL buffers the 99% of mails I have no interest in reading, I can just block the domains of lists I dont feel like dealing with at any given time without having to unsubscribe and subscribe, and it uses no disk space or bandwidth in the process. Its ideal (except for the darned reader). TM