Re: ISP bandwidth/traffic shaper advice?
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:55:59 +0200,
"R.M. Evers" <debian@hbh-it.nl> wrote in message
<[🔎] 1066816558.11008.17.camel@ws2.hbh-it.net>:
> hi everyone,
>
> i work for a small ISP, and not too far from now, we are going to move
> all our colo- and web-servers to another datacenter/colocator. when
> doing this, i would like to add a traffic shaper to our configuration.
> now, i'm not exactly what you would call a networking guru, so i find
> this pretty difficult. i was searching for an easy-to-manage hardware
> appliance, but not with much luck. i've heard suggestions to create a
> 'bridge' using either debian w/ qos or freebsd w/ dummynet. i would
> prefer to do this with debian, because i know nothing of bsd, and do
> practically everything with debian since it's my favorite dist. the
> setup would be something like the following (we've got one routable IP
> C-class, say 1.2.3.0/24):
>
>
> colo internet connection
> |
> |
> bandwidth shaping bridge
> ??? IP ???
..ip's are not needed here. I use a 3'rd wire for config etc, with ip
etc inside my gateway.
> |
> |
> switch
..you _could_ stuff a pc box chock full of these 4-nic cards:
http://www.intel.com/network/connectivity/products/pro1000mt_quad_server_adapter.htm
http://www.intel.com/network/connectivity/products/server_adapters.htm
...and make a throttling switch.
> |
> |
> ---------------------------------------
> | | | |
> ourcolo1 ourcolo2 web1 web2 ..etc
> 1.2.3.100 1.2.3.101 1.2.3.102 1.2.3.103
>
>
> there may be things missing from this nice ascii art.
> if so, please let me know :-).
>
> does anyone have any suggestions on how i should go about this? does
> it matter what IP the bridge has? does anyone know of any good
> documentation which covers this kind of setup, or what software i
> should use?
.._I_ could use feedback and a web gui for this:
http://fmb.no/ipcop/setup-cbq-0.0.4.tar.bz2
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