Re: Packateer

[kaptain <kaptain () kaptain com>]

I've used Packeteers for about 3 years now and I think they are excellent
tools.  Great for protocol based bandwidth throttling and absolute traffic
shaping.

-K


On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, [iso-8859-1] m p wrote:

> Hi Tim,
>
>  --- Tim Chettle <chettltj () hotmail com> schrieb:
> > Im due to deploy a Packateer on one of my customers connections to control
> > their internet connection as it is heavily used.
> >
> > I was curious to see if anyone had any real worls experience or gotchas they
> > had come across
>
> For what reason do you deploy the "Packeteer"? Which product of the company are
> you using? Are you doing it to look into the traffic for a usage analysis or
> are you doing it for QoS? How fast is their internet connection? How many users
> with what kind of traffic are _expected_ to use the internet?
> How do you want to "control their internet connection"? What for?
>
> Maybe it is cheaper to install a proxy (if it is not there) or simply a bigger
> pipe.
>
> I never heard since now anything about that company. But for traffic analysis
> an tcpdump, Ethereal and some knowledge about what _should_ go over the link in
> conjunction with perl and gnuplot should do it.
>
> As for QoS the most routers today can do it on service level. If that is not
> enough a Packeteer PacketShaper or similiar products from other vendors may
> suite you (I have not looked into the product specs).
>
> Hope that helps
>
> Marc
>
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