Re: need advise

[Jeffery . Gieser]

Usman,

So far I do not see anything revolutionary about this idea although I think it would be a fun/good project.  Basically, you are combining a firewall with a bandwidth manager.  Firewalls can already assign various rules to interfaces/IP addresses/IP subnets/user groups.  In a production enviroment you would probably be better off to have seperate boxes for bandwidth management and firewalling especially if you are using an application layer gateway that uses up a lot of system resources for processing packets through the access control list or you have a ton of traffic going through the firewall.  Good luck on your project.


Regards,
Jeffery Gieser