[Cialug] Bandwidth Shapers

[David Champion]

Some of you may recall the LUG presentation by the developer of the 
Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator some time ago:

http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/

They sell an appliance that does some nifty traffic shaping, QoS and 
stuff. The core feature is the Bandwidth Arbitrator - it does dynamic 
shaping on demand in real-time. It may not meet all of your demands, but 
I think this is a better approach for most environments than static name 
based or IP traffic shaping.

-dc

David Bierce wrote:
> Wrote this before lunch and forget to hit send.
>
>
> In terms of appliances, I think Packeteer and Sandvine have appliances 
> that shape very well in the way you are describing.  Pulling the HOST 
> out of the HTTP and throttling back *.facebook.com regardless of IP 
> address.  However, shaping by IP address is a lot of work for HTTPS 
> and is a lot more problematic.  Currently, most rich media websites 
> don't use HTTPS for serving up their heavy files.  Additionally, 
> throttling by IP for media rich websites can be an issue because an IP 
> fro Akami or Cachefly may service Facebook.com, Yahoo.com, 
> MySpace.com, Revision3.com, and FAFSA.gov leading to some unexpected 
> throttling, which isn't that big of a deal unless you're blocking.
>
>
>
> On Dec 17, 2007, at 11:41 AM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
>
>> On 12/17/07, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> That implies, as far as I can tell, that some proxy server would 
>>> have to be
>>> used in order to shape HTTPS traffic since I know of no other way 
>>> besides IP
>>> based rules, which you didn't want to do. Meaning without the client
>>> configured to use a proxy server you can't shape the https stuff 
>>> (that I
>>> know of, and even them some types of proxying, like transparent 
>>> proxying,
>>> don't work afaik).
>>
>> I'm OK with shaping by IP address, I just don't want to maintain the
>> list of IP addresses myself - I'd rather pay to have someone else
>> maintain the list.  I just want to click a checkbox next to something
>> that says "limit facebook to 5Mb/s" and have it "just work" without me
>> having to run a sniffer and figure out what IP addresses facebook's
>> servers run from.  Same deal for myspace, youtube, etc.
>>
>> Jeff
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