From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Jan 16 9:29:16 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 3033414CF5 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 09:29:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from oogali@intranova.net) Received: (qmail 95377 invoked from network); 16 Jan 2000 12:31:22 -0000 Received: from hydrant.intranova.net (user77981@209.201.95.10) by blacklisted.intranova.net with SMTP; 16 Jan 2000 12:31:21 -0000 Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 12:26:34 -0500 (EST) From: Omachonu Ogali To: "Nicholas J. Dear" Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bandwidth limiting on Switch. In-Reply-To: <200001141347.NAA03501@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 It's not a matter of manafacturer, but it's a matter of the model/make and its features, preferrably a Layer 3 switch. Omachonu Ogali Intranova Networking Group On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Nicholas J. Dear wrote: > 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