Hello LEAF users,
We are going to be getting a full 100mbit line dropped to us in a colocation facility. We plan to resell part of this bandwidth to about about 20 dedicated and colocated clients. I am trying to come up with a cheap, effective & easy solution to serve these clients AND manage/throttle/cap their bandwidth consumption. I have been administrating my own (FreeBSD) boxes for about 7 years now, so I know my way around unix a bit. However, I have never been faced with networking at this level, and don't really know about RIP and the various bandwidth management options available. So far here is what I came up with: Solution #1 CISCO Layer3 Switch ~$2500: CISCO Catalyst WS-C2948G-L3 Layer 3 Switch. It Does RIP, does ACL rate-limiting for (crude?) bw management. Seems like a single-appliance solution -- price $2000-$3000 Ugh. Solution #2 ETINC software + Switch ~$1500: Banwidth Management software from www.etinc.com (applied on one of my boxes). I _think_ I could run that box as a router still... then all I would need would be a good 24-48 port switch (could someone recommend?). Price?... $700 for the software, ~$300 for the box, another $500 for the switch? (maybe thats too much).. Total ~$1500.00. Solution #3 -- LEAF + Switch = ~$800 (or less!): Could leaf handle this on a good box? All I would need then would be a good switch right? Keep in mind, it is a FULL 100mbit line - and we will be paying for the bandwidth. If we aren't getting "full wire speed" or whatever.. its probably because of some hardware bottleneck or something somewhere. So I sort of wanted to use good hardware - or at least a solution that would be compareable to the CISCO router. Thanks for reading, Kaz _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
