Re: Speeds and feeds

[kdlucas () netscape com (Kelly Lucas)]

Just an fyi and actually non relevant,

Last I heard, we use 3 T-3's, and the city was working on putting in an
OCR.  But, that was over one year ago, so I'm not sure about it now.

kdl


Bennett Todd wrote:

> It definitely sounds like the T1 is saturating --- but it would never
> hurt to more-positively document that. If you can get router statistics
> on line utilization that would help.
>
> Given that they're using up the T1, one good question is, do they want
> to buy more bandwidth? If so then by all means do so. But people doing
> big downloads can saturate _anything_ (I know --- I like to do tricks
> like mirror the entire Red Hat site:-).
>
> So if other users are noticing degraded response, I'd look into
> bandwidth management solutions. Cisco has some traffic shaping options
> for recent IOS releases, there's dummynet[1] (for FreeBSD --- freely
> available) and the Bandwidth Manager[2] (for FreeBSD, BSDI, and NetBSD,
> $500).
>
> And worst comes to worst, you may well be able to do the deed if you
> force the big downloaders to go through a separate set of proxies, and
> put a mechanism in place --- e.g. a slip line running at 115kbps --- to
> throttle their bandwidth.
>
> -Bennett
>
> [1] <URL:http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ip_dummynet/>
> [2] <URL:http://www.etinc.com/bwmgr.htm>



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