[Cialug] Bandwidth Shapers

[Dave Weis]

I had started doing something similar with the linux bandwidth control 
tools to do per ip/mac speed control. There's no easy way to do it by 
subnets, you generally have to do it per machine. I think it's called tc.

On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:

> I'm curious if anyone knows of a product that will help us shape some
> of our Internet traffic.  In particular, we need something that will:
>
> 1) Handle a lot of bandwidth, at least 40Mb/s of bandwidth currently
> and likely to grow (don't go by the interface type... I have expensive
> Cisco routers with Gig-E interfaces that will only handle 45Mb/s).
>
> 2) Have the ability to shape traffic to particular web sites, e.g.
> myspace, facebook, or youtube without having to manually identify IP
> ranges and ports.  If necessary, we'd be willing to pay a reasonable
> subscription fee to keep the list of web sites updated.
>
> 3) Time based controls (so we could limit facebook traffic during the
> day, but open it up at night).
>
> Jeff
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