Re: [WISPA] router to load balance 2 wan connections

[Martes Wigglesworth]

These types of questions make my back-fat tingle... hehehe

The BSD route is the cheapest and still works great, in my small
environment.  You can do what this gentleman is doing but with bandwidth
shaping with dummynet.  I think that it can get a bit tricky when
figuring out the right bucket size, however, I was managing bandwidth
for roughly 80 users, and an internet cafe that was supplying the second
satelite in Iraq with a P4, 256MB ram, and 10GB hard drive in a
rackmount enclosure and two satellites for second tier provisioning.  Of
course this was not in the 20mb/s range, but the band-shaping policies
worked flawlessly.  I symmetrically shaped each user, and wrote a script
to manage unused pipes if they did not die quickly enough.  Of course
this was a build of necessity, due to the environment and lack of easily
procurable cisco stuff, but if I had instituted Asterisk, then I would
have had the same functionality of a cisco 3800, possibly. 

Ahhh Fun times And then I got shot in the left check like
Forest.  Still pretty fun though... hehehe

Sorry if this is too much of an amateur solution for you big guys out
there, but I just love my BSD

I also build into the system a kill switch, for those times when we were
on black-outs due to something urgent, like a death needing to be
disseminated to the family members prior to a video tribute reaching
YouTube, or something like that. 

Worked out pretty nice, and I am still using the same design this
minute.  


On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 02:28 -0400, George Rogato wrote:
> Not sure about load balancing, as for policy routing, thats easy. We do 
> that with a bsd box.
> I would assume all the routers, imagestream, MT, Star, Cisco, etc etc.
> can handle various wans with policy routing. We just haven't done our 
> router upgrade yet and handle ours on an older bsd box.
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> > I am looking for a router to load balance 2 wan connections and support 450
> > users behind the router. I will be bringing in 2 external circuits from
> > different providers and want to be able to use both. Any have any experience
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Re: [WISPA] Splash Page

[Martes Wigglesworth]

Greetings.

I don't think that you need a specific "program." to find a solution for
this issue.  I thought that you meant some sort of splash screen that
comes up on the CPE, or on the internal web server for the device in
question.

If you really just want  it to do so automatically, you can simple use a
nice page such as listed by the previous post, and have them put onto a
list of suspended traffic, so that they get redirected to this page
weather they are a new customer, or simply a customer who has not paid. 

It seems more than doable, and not in need of a special program.  

I am sure that you have already discovered this, however, I was not sure
so I just decided to post anyhow.

This is not unlike what you would do if you have and internet cafe' that
shows a screen for login, or payment if the time limit has expired.

Unless you are unfamiliar with webpage production, you could just make a
single page, and save yourself the trouble of trying to find a "good"
example.

The one listed below is very good, though.  And if you wanted to include
insurance, then you could have a second page, to indicate such service
requirements, and payment options...

Very viable indeed.

On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 22:08 -0400, J. Vogel wrote:
> I have a splash page such as what you are describing (
> http://vogent.net:88/ ) but no CPE insurance program.
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> > Does anyone have a page they use when you cut off a customer for 
> > non-payment and let them know that their internet has been suspended. 
> > Letting them know what to do to activate it again, like making a payment. 
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> > Also, I want to have customers pay an insurance on their equipment, I seen 
> > one on this list about a year ago and saved the link to use later but it no 
> > longer works, I believe it was Mac Dearman. 
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> > It was a great program and I would like to use it, if I can.
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