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. > > George > > Alan Long wrote: > > 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 > > with gear to handle this? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > <http://www.aerowire.net> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Alan Long > > Director of Network Operations > > > > Aerowire > > > > <http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?Pyt=Tmap&addr=687+North+Dean+Road&csz=Aubu > > rn%2C+AL+36830&country=us> 687 North Dean Road > > Auburn, AL 36830 > > > > > > <mailto:alan.l...@aerowire.net> alan.l...@aerowire.net > > > > > > tel: > > mobile: > > > > > > <http://www.plaxo.com/click_to_call?lang=en&src=jj_signature&To=3342759998&E > > mail=along5...@yahoo.com> 3342759998 > > > > <http://www.plaxo.com/click_to_call?lang=en&src=jj_signature&To=3344446092&E > > mail=along5...@yahoo.com> 3344446092 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > <https://www.plaxo.com/add_me?u=30065206883&src=client_sig_212_1_card_join&i > > nvite=1<=en> Always have my latest info > > > > <http://www.plaxo.com/signature?src=client_sig_212_1_card_sig<=en> Want a > > signature like this? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
