RE: Router with bandwidth management

["Mark Tinka" <mtinka at africaonline.co.ug>]

John, I've had experience with Packeteer, and unless they cleaned up their
act, they are no good with high load of multiple traffic variables and
types.

Have you heard of ETINC - www.etinc.com - although this would be a dedicated
box. If Robert already has a Cisco router as specified earlier, it's a
cheaper alternative.

Regards,

Mark Tinka - CCNA
Network Engineer
Africa Online Uganda
5th Floor, Commercial Plaza
7 Kampala Rd,
Tel:   +256-41-258143
Fax:   +256-41-258144
E-mail: mtinka at africaonline.co.ug
Web:     www.africaonline.co.ug
 

-----Original Message-----
From: John Tully [mailto:tully at mikrotik.com] 
Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2003 2:39 PM
To: mtinka at africaonline.co.ug; 'Robert'; afnog at afnog.org
Subject: RE: Router with bandwidth management


You could also use lower cost alternatives.

Linux and BSD have some special builds that provide this for free.

Also, RouterOS has some easy to use bandwidth shaping features -- $25 for 
an OEM license.
http://www.mikrotik.com/Documentation/manual_2.7/Root/Queue.html

There are also a number of boxes priced similar to Cisco -- Packeteer is 
one example

John
www.mikrotik.com

At 01:44 PM 5/17/2003 +0300, Mark Tinka wrote:
>Well, if you choose to go with Cisco, they support some form of 
>bandwidth
>management called rate-limiting.
>
>With rate-limiting, you can asign minimum, maximum and burst bandwidth 
>to
>a specific IP address and/or network range. Here's a sample configuration:
>
>conf t
>  access-list 100 remark 32Kbps to Wireless Client XXX
>  access-list 100 permit ip host 192.168.0.200 any
>  access-list 100 permit ip any host 192.168.0.200
>
>  int e0/0
>   rate-limit input access-group 100 32000 8000 16000 conform-action
> transmit exceed-action drop
>   rate-limit output access-group 100 32000 8000 16000 conform-action 
> transmit exceed-action drop
>
>As you can see above, the access list that matches your wireless 
>client's
>IP address is placed onto the Ethernet interface that is connected to your 
>wireless segment. In the rate-limit statement on the Ethernet interface, 
>32000 is the bits per second allowed, 8000 is the normal burst bytes and 
>16000 is the maximum burst bytes. As the last few lines say, if the user's 
>IP address conforms to this setting, transmit his packets through. If the 
>assigned capacity is exceeded, begin to apply congestion control - 
>basically, drop packets exceeding allocated capacity.
>
>Rate-limiting is supported on only the 2600 series chassis and above. 
>From
>experience, it doesn't work on the 1600 nor the 1700 series Cisco routers.
>
>Regards,
>
>Mark Tinka - CCNA
>Network Engineer
>Africa Online Uganda
>5th Floor, Commercial Plaza
>7 Kampala Rd,
>Tel:   +256-41-258143
>Fax:   +256-41-258144
>E-mail: mtinka at africaonline.co.ug
>Web:     www.africaonline.co.ug
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-afnog at afnog.org [mailto:owner-afnog at afnog.org] On Behalf Of
>Robert
>Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 9:50 PM
>To: afnog at afnog.org
>Subject: Router with bandwidth management
>
>Who can propose to me an entry level router with bandwidth mangement 
>for
>my small wireless isp network?
>
>Regards
>
>Robert Longla





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