Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 08:45:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Intranova Networking Group <oogali@intranova.net> To: "Nicholas J. Dear" <ndear@areti.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bandwidth limiting on Switch. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001140844150.49240-100000@blacklisted.intranova.net> In-Reply-To: <200001141219.MAA29003@post.mail.areti.net>
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Either you can use a hardware solution (Ethernet switch) or you can use a software solution, which includes the dummynet bandwidth limiting/throttling feature in the FreeBSD kernel. Look at the 'ipfw' man page for more information on configuration issues and such... Omachonu Ogali Intranova Networking Group On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Nicholas J. Dear wrote: > Hi, > > We're about to start doing some co-location, and we will need to restrict the > bandwidth to each machine. I'm assuming we need some sort of switch with > bandwidth throttling capabilities? > > We'd need to throttle from 32K, or 64K upwards, in 64K increments. > > Could anyone recommend a particular product, or how they do the job? > TIA. > N. > -- > Nicholas J. Dear > Mail: ndear@areti.net Tel: +44 (0)20-8402-4041 > Areti Internet Ltd., http://www.areti.co.uk/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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