Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 23:54:40 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Jude Adeline <victha@seychelles.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ditributing bandwidth on a LAN Message-ID: <20000515235440.C20000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <392128FE.3228AF20@seychelles.net>; from victha@seychelles.net on Tue, May 16, 2000 at 02:54:55PM %2B0400 References: <392128FE.3228AF20@seychelles.net>
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* Jude Adeline <victha@seychelles.net> [000515 23:34] wrote: > Hi, > I'm writing on behalf of the local ISP in Seychelles, ATLAS Seychelles > LTD. We are querying on the possibility of getting information on > bandwidth management on a LAN. Our interest is to distribute bandwidth > accordingly to different computers connected on a hub on this network. > Not necesarily the Internet. Can you provide us with information on what > we might need, software and hardware, and proposed scenarios to > implement that. Check the manpage for dummynet in FreeBSD, it offers bandwidth limiting, although to be honest, putting boxes on a hub/switch on not on thier own dedicated ethernet card directly to the box is a security/accounting issue because it's far to easy for the machines to steal IP addresses. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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