RE: Router with bandwidth management

[<ziggy at one2net.co.ug>]

> 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.


** It is quite expensive you are right on that, but works perfectly, havent
really tried Mikrotik. And as for the etinc programmer and tech support
guy , he is a pain am sure Mark can tell you that too, we had a verbal
brawl with him for about 1 week and he still didnt give us good support, i
also sometime back asked him why i cant seem to get real-time stats on the
bwmgr and i got a lame answer which i could not stomach :)


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>>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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