RE: Router with bandwidth management

[John Tully <tully at mikrotik.com>]

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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