RE: Router with bandwidth management

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

You are right on the money about the ETINC guy. He's the owner and offers
the worst technical and customer support, ever! But, he's product is very
superior, and the price is good.

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 3:20 PM
To: mtinka at africaonline.co.ug; 'Robert'; afnog at afnog.org
Subject: RE: Router with bandwidth management


Hello Mark,

>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.

I don't know much about them, but I see they have a nice GUI.

>Have you heard of ETINC - www.etinc.com - although this would be a 
>dedicated box.

This solution is quite expensive at more than $2000 a box (at last 
look).  The guy that sells this is very famous for being a difficult person 
-- from what I know, he does the programming and tech support (not a recipe 
for friendly tech support).  And it can't do much more unless you are a 
linux guru -- better to go with the linux or bsd option then.  The Mikrotik 
box is $495 with these features.

>If Robert already has a Cisco router as specified earlier, it's a 
>cheaper alternative.

Certainly, but it depends on how must power the Cisco box has -- Cisco puts 
the lowest power cpu possible for routing in most boxes and you need to 
check the shaping throughput.

John
www.mikrotik.com



>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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