RE: Rate Limiting on Cisco Router

[Brandon Kim <brandon.kim () brandontek com>]

Pretty funny and good stuff....since no one really acheives true 100MB speeds anyways, then
a 100MB port might actually traffic shape itself naturally!!! I forget what the actual speeds truly are...
is it 80% advertised speeds?

I'm not sure which is cheaper but I think Juniper has some low end Netscreens you can try also
that have traffic shaping features.....


> Subject: RE: Rate Limiting on Cisco Router
> From: gordslater () ieee org
> To: brandon.kim () brandontek com
> CC: nanog () nanog org
> Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 06:33:04 +0100
>
> On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 20:01 -0400, Brandon Kim wrote:
> > What about purchasing a low-end packetshaper to be used in between?
>
> If -
>
> 1/ budget is a problem
>
> and
>
> 2/ you have no BSD knowledge inhouse
>
> and 
>
> 3/ the LAN side is all ethernet
>
> you could have a stab at using a PFsense box with two (and strictly ONLY
> two, for this use) physical NICs. It has a GUI to set up traffic shaping
> (see the sticky on the pfsense forums) PFsense 1.2.3 is current, don't
> go for the experimental 2.0 for production. There's a book and
> commercial support if you need it, free support via forums if you can't.
>
> Only two physical NICs is necessary due to shaper problems with more
> than two, whereas in a firewalling role the slots are the only limit
> (but VLANS are the norm for bucketloads of ports on a firewall PFsense
> box) 
> An ITX (Littlefalls etc) mobo with 512MB RAM with an extra PCI Intel NIC
> added will do you fine
> .. 
> PFsense has nice traffic graphs, which helps you with shaping speeds in
> a big way. It also has a TFTP server available for it so it's handy for
> unmanned sites with only a few blue boxes ;)
>
> PS - a crazy afterthough - surely just about anything with a 10/100
> ethernet link running at 100 and placed inline, cannot exceed 100Mbps -
> and probably less if it's plastic-cased? Try a few 8-port junkers and
> see what happens if you fancy a walk on the dangerous side. Watch out
> for errors and smoke :) 
>
> Gord
> --
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>