From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 7 14:19:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bom.thegrid.net (xbom.thegrid.net [209.162.0.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10C2837BBD9 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 14:19:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tony@thegrid.net) Received: from thegrid.net (grover.thegrid.net [192.168.2.13] (may be forged)) by bom.thegrid.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA25577; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 14:16:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <398F23A1.42596D92@thegrid.net> Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 14:01:21 -0700 From: Tony Rini - System Administrator Organization: OneMain.Com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Grandpa Walrus Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port throttling References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Take a look at the packeteer. http://www.packeteer.com. It does a great job with bandwidth management. You can specify how much bandwidth each IP is allowed and even manage it down to the URL on a webserver behind it. I suppose to give certain pages more preference. It does reporting, bandwidth spikes or no spikes, etc. Easy to set up web based GUI. Great for co-lo customers. Take Care, -- Tony Rini tony@thegrid.net System Administrator Direct 805-503-7569 OneMain.Com www.onemain.com ------------------------------------------------- Your Hometown Internet ------------------------------------------------- Grandpa Walrus wrote: > > Is there a good way, under FreeBSD 3.x (or 4.x, or whatever) to tell the > BSD system that a given interface has a maximum speed of, say, 256k? > > i.e. > > rl0 - 10baseT (Gateway to router) > rl1 - 128k (LAN interface) > rl2 - 256k (Client's Dedicated Server) > rl3 - 256k (Client's Dedicated Server) > > This would be used to prevent client networks (co-located) from utilizing > more bandwidth than they should be, to avoid clogging our main outward > pipe. > > Alternatively, is there an appliance that could do this? (a managed > switch/hub, perhaps?) This would be the preferable solution, but a > FreeBSD system would probably be less costly. > > Any help you could give would be greatly appreciated > > ----------- > Robert Wall sales@web-walrus.com > Web Walrus Media > 405 S Farwell St #23C > Eau Claire, WI 54701 (715) 855-0189 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message