RE: [afnog] Booking Internet bandwith

["Moussa BAGAYOKO" <mkbagayoko at bdm-sa.com>]

Hello everybody,

according with what Mark said, I haven't bandwith manager. Actually I've 
got windows nt box with vicomsoft doing nat and sharing Internet 
connexion. I want to migrate to linux/freebsb based solution with 
bandwith manager. I'm not newsbies in this area. Any Ideas or 
experiencies ?

Warm Regards
Moussa BAGAYOKO 
 
Mark Tinka <mtinka at africaonline.co.ug> a dit :

> afnog-bounces at afnog.org wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > first thank for your future help.
> > Is it possible to keep a part of Internet bandwith for specific
> > application or specific LAN P.C.? In my office an application need to
> > establish sometime a tunnel between computer that running it and
> > servers trough Internet. The connexion fails sometime when our
> > bandwith is full. I'm seeking solution for that.
> > 
> > Best regards
> > Moussa BAGAYOKO
> 
> Moussa, this has a lot to do with your bandwidth management policies and
> guidelines, as a company. While you really can't "guarantee" or "keep 
aside"
> free bandwidth, you can play with your total capacity and bandwidth 
manager,
> to have some free capacity available for your bandwidth intensive
> applications and/or users.
> 
> At any rate, you need to have some control over the utilisation of your
> capacity, otherwise it becomes trickier to provision a segment of that
> capacity to your requirements.
> 
> Do you have any bandwidth management installed?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mark Tinka - CCNA
> Network Engineer, Africa Online Uganda
> 
> 
> 

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