RE: [afnog] Booking Internet bandwith

[Noah K Sematimba <ksemat at ksemat.co.ug>]

I would recomment that you setup FreeBSD for this. The freeBSD handbook
has a good tutorial for setting up nat on FreeBSD and there are also hints
in the archives of this mailing list on hwo to get this done. The hand
book is at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook

For bandwidth management you need to recompile your FreeBSD kernel with
DUMMYNET support and IPFW plus of course IPDIVERT if you plan to use natd.

There is a dummynet howto as well that will show you the ropes on how to
configure your bandwidth management.

I have also used Linux in the past with CBQ etc but found the FreeBSD
solution to be much more flexible.

Noah.

On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Moussa  BAGAYOKO wrote:

> 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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