From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Apr 6 18:11:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA17424 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 18:11:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from super-g.inch.com (super-g.com [207.240.140.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA17413 for ; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 18:11:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from spork@super-g.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by super-g.inch.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA15693; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 21:10:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 21:10:40 -0400 (EDT) From: spork X-Sender: spork@super-g.inch.com To: Christopher Martin at Home cc: Anthony Barlow , "'freebsd-isp@freebsd.org'" , Ben Schumacher Subject: Re: Bandwidth limiter for services? In-Reply-To: <199804062104.XAA27968@mail.keyworld.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 How does this all relate to "altq"? I saw a notice of a new version on -hackers today: A new release of ALTQ (finally version 1.0.1!) is available from http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/kjc/software.html or ftp://ftp.csl.sony.co.jp/pub/kjc/altq-1.0.1.tar.gz The release includes: alternate queueing support for FreeBSD-2.2.[1256]R kernel. CBQ, WFQ, RED, and FIFOQ implementations tools for CBQ RSVP stubs for CBQ ECN (for IPv4) support in RED and TCP Charles Sprickman spork@super-g.com ---- "I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man Just a mortal with potential of a superman I'm living on" -DB On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Christopher Martin at Home wrote: > > > Here is something I stumbled upon while investigating the T1 cards for > > FreeBSD. Check out Emerging Technologies Bandwidth Manager. URL: > > http://www.etinc.com/ > > > > This is something my company has been looking for as well and this looks > > like a good product for that. Hope this is what you are looking for. > > > > - Ben Schumacher > > > > > > At 04:48 PM 4/6/98 +0100, Anthony Barlow wrote: > > >Hi everyone > > > > > >Is there any software/hardware that will allow me to limit the bandwith > > >that a partiuclar service users. We currently have a slow 128Kb link > > >linking our Cambridge office to our Derby office and we would like to > > >limit the bandwidth that people use for web browsing. - Can it be done > > >without affecting any other services? > > I suggest that you check it out though. I think it works by dropping > packets. If it does the pipe might be filled by stuff that is already > downloaded. This might result in unaccepttable amount of retransmissions > from source. > > So you would not be really saving bandwidth... > > Chris > > 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