From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Feb 5 18:34:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from post.xecu.net (post.xecu.net [216.127.136.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14B5537B67D for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 18:34:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from shell.xecu.net (shell.xecu.net [216.127.136.216]) by post.xecu.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81B7647B9; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 21:30:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (andy@localhost) by shell.xecu.net (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA17244; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 21:34:10 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: shell.xecu.net: andy owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 21:34:10 -0500 (EST) From: Andy Dills To: Dennis Cc: Will Andrews , Subject: Re: simple FreeBSD shaper questions :) In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.0.20010205175710.02a1baa0@mail.etinc.com> 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 On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Dennis wrote: > Someone asked about the product, so at least one person does, and thats > enough. When some irate ex-customer blabs garbage out of context an > explanation is warranted. These lists get archived, and people rely on > them. We cant have cry-babies like andy dills airing his frustration > effecting how people make decisions on how they run their businesses. Well then, let's talk about how your bwmgr would hard-lock the kernel (under various hardware with various kernels and releases), whenever a rule was removed and readded with different bandwidth levels. It made the product pretty useless for a period of time, because that was the only way to adjust the bandwidth until you recently changed the behavior of "bwmgr add" to modify previous rules. No hardlocks under 4.2, I'll give you that. I hear good things about your T1 cards, but I have no experience with them. I hear mixed things and have mixed results about your bwmgr, although the product finally, after 3 years, seems to be production ready. However, ipfw replicates the core usage, and you can make your own mrtg graphs. However, buyer beware. It's pretty obvious what type of guy Dennis is. Andy xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Xecunet, LLC www.xecu.net xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Dialup * Webhosting * E-Commerce * High-Speed Access To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message