From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Jun 7 08:58:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA22522 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 7 Jun 1997 08:58:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw-fr1.etinc.com [204.141.244.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA22517 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 1997 08:58:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dialup-usr11.etinc.com (dialup-usr11.etinc.com [204.141.95.132]) by etinc.com (8.8.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA19504; Sat, 7 Jun 1997 12:04:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970607115021.00bbf338@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Sat, 07 Jun 1997 11:50:25 -0400 To: Luigi Rizzo , manar@ivision.co.uk (Manar Hussain) From: dennis Subject: Re: ETinc's Bandwidth limiter Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 09:12 AM 6/5/97 +0200, Luigi Rizzo 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 ? There is no "fair routing" in a web farm unless everyone pays the same price, which is ridiculous. Charge based on their bandwidth access capability.. and with the bandwidth manager there is not accounting headaches 'cause they cant get more than they pay for. db > > Luigi >-----------------------------+-------------------------------------- >Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione >email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa >tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) >fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ >_____________________________|______________________________________ > >