Hey Everyone, This is actually my first post to the list, been a lurker since we started using SB gear, and I thought I'd put in my $.02 about the paper I wrote.
I can vouch for the setup we have going, as documented in the WARTA guide linked below. We had a few issues with PPPoE on particular SOHO routers not working with ABTotals, particularly netgear and dlink, but the latest patch (which we put on while it was in beta) has cleared up all the issues that we've had. We currently have a LOT of people running through our single BSD machine. I believe today we had our 86th install -- we have a main tower and two relay towers (all using SB gear), and all the bandwidth comes back to the FreeBSD machine which limits everybody accordingly. By using PPPoE and configuring the APs correctly, you eliminate any client-to-client traffic and remove the possibility of non-WAN directed traffic sapping the banwidth from the towers, as well as making for easy RADIUS tie ins, bandwidth management, IP conservation, and a ton of other stuff. The best part about the whole WARTA thing: it costs only as much as a cheapo PC (we use a 600mhz emachine we got for $50) and some of your time. Microtik is the exact same thing, except that it uses Linux instead of FreeBSD and has a neato GUI on it. If you can do without point and click and are on a budget as we all are, WARTA is the way to go. Cheers, Randal Kohutek Network Operations High Plains Internet, inc. ---- Original Message ---- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [smartBridges] Bandwidth Limiting Software Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 15:19:56 +1000 >this maybe of interest >http://www.hpi.net/whitepapers/warta/ > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Wednesday, 13 August 2003 2:31 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: [smartBridges] Bandwidth Limiting Software >> >> The smartBridge system doesn't seem to have a way to limit the >bandwidth >> available to any specific client. We're running into problems with >> subscribers hogging bandwidth by downloading huge files and the >like. >> What solutions are available to manage this kind of problem. >Perhaps >> PPPoE with bandwidth shaping software of some kind? >> >> Thanks, Greg > The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://archives.part-15.org
