From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 15 23:22:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B703637B510 for ; Mon, 15 May 2000 23:22:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e4G6se023091; Mon, 15 May 2000 23:54:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 23:54:40 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Jude Adeline Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ditributing bandwidth on a LAN Message-ID: <20000515235440.C20000@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <392128FE.3228AF20@seychelles.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <392128FE.3228AF20@seychelles.net>; from victha@seychelles.net on Tue, May 16, 2000 at 02:54:55PM +0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Jude Adeline [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