Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:30:26 -1000 From: "David J. Orman" <ormandj@corenode.com> To: akachler@telcom.net Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pf/altq Message-ID: <c9d002ba3679.451a60d2@corenode.com> In-Reply-To: <451AEB8A.20501@telcom.net> References: <451AE254.3050603@telcom.net> <c9d045d3edd.451a593c@corenode.com> <451AEB8A.20501@telcom.net>
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> Thank you for your response David. > We basically need to limit the bandwidth of each one of our > customers > based on what they have contracted. Some customers have simple, > mostly > web traffic, while some others have very complex patterns with lots > of > DNS/mail/web/ssh/etc. >From what you are describing, it sounds doable with decent hardware. It's certainly worth a shot, pf/altq is fairly easy to work with, and shouldn't take you more than a few hours to get FreeBSD installed, the network configured, the rules in place, and the traffic shaping going. Tons of howtos all over the net. I used the OpenBSD documentation on PF to get myself going, from what I remember. > But your telling me that sustained 80Mbps is possible tells me that > it > is a robust system. Like most things coming from the OpenBSD project, I think "robust" accurate describes it. I just had issues with hardware reliability, I couldn't do N+1 redundancy on all parts like I can with hardware routers. BGP/etc was also a mess to work with, so for my situation it was better to go the HW route. That said, I did very much like the flexibility of having a general purpose machine/OS - it allowed me to do some creative things that I might be limited on with the pure HW solutions from the likes of Cisco/Juniper/etc. > We haven't even started testing, but your response gives us the > confidence to at least spend the time testing. Great! I don't think you'll be disappointed. :) > Thanks again David. Anytime! Cheers, David
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