Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 23:08:02 +0200 From: "Christopher Martin at Home" <chrism@keyworld.net> To: "Anthony Barlow" <Anthony.Barlow@europe.simoco.com>, "'freebsd-isp@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Ben Schumacher" <freebsd@plinet.com> Subject: Re: Bandwidth limiter for services? Message-ID: <199804062104.XAA27968@mail.keyworld.net>
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> Here is something I stumbled upon while investigating the T1 cards for > FreeBSD. Check out Emerging Technologies Bandwidth Manager. URL: > http://www.etinc.com/ > > This is something my company has been looking for as well and this looks > like a good product for that. Hope this is what you are looking for. > > - Ben Schumacher > > > At 04:48 PM 4/6/98 +0100, Anthony Barlow wrote: > >Hi everyone > > > >Is there any software/hardware that will allow me to limit the bandwith > >that a partiuclar service users. We currently have a slow 128Kb link > >linking our Cambridge office to our Derby office and we would like to > >limit the bandwidth that people use for web browsing. - Can it be done > >without affecting any other services? I suggest that you check it out though. I think it works by dropping packets. If it does the pipe might be filled by stuff that is already downloaded. This might result in unaccepttable amount of retransmissions from source. So you would not be really saving bandwidth... Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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