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On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 11:38:01AM -0600, [email protected] wrote: > Note: delurk. > > Some of the commercial traffic shaping devices reviewed here are tens of > thousands of dollars. For a smaller ISP (i.e. less than a DS3 of > aggregate upstream bandwidth), that kind of expense doesn't make sense-- > but the need to control bandwidth consumption is still an issue. > > Is anyone on the NANOG list aware of a disk-less Linux solution? One might > imagine a Knoppix-like bootable CD image (perhaps CD-RW, so config files > could be updated) that would turn an inexpensive Linux box into an > effective traffic shaping device, using tools like CBQinit, MRTG/RRDTOOL, > and a Webmin-like admin interface. The closest thing to this I've seen is > ETINC's BWMGR, but that's a closed-source solution and is still somewhat > expensive. http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ perhaps? The full version is inexpensive, the non-GUI version is freely available. Cheers, Steve
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