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Date:      Thu, 09 Jan 1997 12:55:46 -0500
From:      dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
To:        mika ruohotie <bsdisp@shadows.aeon.net>
Cc:        isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dedicating bandwidth?
Message-ID:  <3.0.32.19970109125544.00aace80@etinc.com>

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At 09:58 PM 1/8/97 +0200, you wrote:
>> > tounge just right, problem.  Or, they are not familiar enough with what
>> > the operating system is already designed to do.
>> Good point.
>
>hmm...
>
>> In this specific case, though, it is true that it is easy to
>> saturate a PPP link pumping data from an Ethernet. The TCP congestion
>
>exactly.
>
>> Having a small amount of reserved bandwidth helps a lot in this case
>> (or you can assign priorities depending on type of traffic, such as
>> some version of iijppp is supposed to do, and some actually do).
>
>since i'm on leased 57600 line (might be 115200 next week, certainly
>something faster in next 6 months of time) and it's not dialup, i
>use kernel ppp...

The ET/BWMGR for FreeBSD and BSD/OS can allocate, guarantee or limit 
the bandwidth usage of  any host or service, precisely to specific
user-defined bandwidth limits. It can also provide high-performance inline
firewalling/filtering. Info is available at http://www.etinc.com/bwmgr.htm

Dennis

Emerging Technologies, Inc.
Router cards for BSD/OS, FreeBSD and Linux
Standalone Routers
Bandwidth Allocation/Limiter Manager
http://www.etinc.com
sales@etinc.com
(516) 271-4525



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