there is neat monster called pfSense, runs of FreeBSD, its a firewall, gateway, bandwidth manager and much much much more out of the box. Its pretty simple to configure too... http://www.pfsense.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PfSense
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 7:47 AM, joseph mpora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > -- Mike Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in a million chances happen 99% of the time. ------------------------------------------------------------
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