We currently have an ipcop box serving as gateway but this can be changed to a more fully fledged linux distro.
Will read up on pools in squid, ebox and the bandwidth-limiting howto. These seem the most cost effective for the equipment I already have. Thank you, Joseph On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Markus A. Wipfler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Joseph, > > we use etinc (etinc.com) at work, bur for a "pocket friendly" setup you > could give this a shot if you got some time on your hands. > > Using traffic control (tc) and iptables example: > http://www.knowplace.org/pages/howtos/traffic_shaping_with_linux/examples.php > > Technical explanation about queueing disciplines for bandwidth management: > > http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.qdisc.html > > > -- > Markus > > > > On Oct 4, 2008, at 11:21 AM, joseph mpora wrote: > >> Hullo, >> >> Does anyone know what ISPs use to limit customers' bandwidth to a >> particular maximum speed? >> >> I have a few bandwidth hogs on my network and want to limit each >> computer to a particular maximum speed so bandwidth is fairly >> allocated to each user regardless of their usage (e.g 192.168.0.5 gets >> a max speed of 10kbps) >> >> Cheers, Joseph >> _______________________________________________ >> LUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug >> %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ >> >> The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including >> attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. >> --------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
