[techtalk] Bandwidth management

[moebius at ip-solutions.net]

Hey Sriram,
  My bad, check out rshaper then this will actually allow for bandwidth
shaping as opposed to just monitoring.
HTH,

Harry Hoffman
Product Systems Specialist
Restaurants Unlimited Inc.
206.634.3082 x. 270

On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Sriram. V wrote:

> If I am right, iptraf gives the iptraffic on a lan or wan segment. I am
> looking for a bandwidth management software, typically like Floodgate.
> 
> Cheers
> Sriram
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: moebius at ip-solutions.net <moebius at ip-solutions.net>
> To: techtalk at linuxchix.org <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
> Date: Monday, March 06, 2000 1:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [techtalk] Bandwidth management
> 
> 
> >Hey Sriram,
> >  Check out the iptraf command. I believe it is what you're looking for.
> >Regards,
> >
> >Harry Hoffman
> >Product Systems Specialist
> >Restaurants Unlimited Inc.
> >206.634.3082 x. 270
> >
> >On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Rik Hemsley wrote:
> >
> >> #if Sriram-HO
> >> > I have a 2 MB pipe from the ISP. Now I want to allocate this bandwidth
> to
> >> > some of my other locations. I should be able to say location a be given
> 64
> >> > K, location b 25 k and so on using the bandwidth managment software.
> Typical
> >> > example is Floodgate.
> >>
> >> Well looking at the Linux kernel config...
> >>
> >> --------------------------------
> >> CONFIG_NET_SCHED:
> >>
> >> When the kernel has several packets to send out over the network
> >> devices, it has to make a decision which one to send first. This is
> >> especially important if some of the network devices are real time
> >> devices that need a certain minimum data flow rate. There are
> >> several different algorithms for how to do this "fairly"; they are
> >> called packet schedulers. If you want to stick to the default
> >> scheduling algorithm, say N here. If you want to experiment with a
> >> couple of different algorithms, say Y. You can then attach different
> >> schedulers to different network devices. Currently, this is only
> >> recommended for experts.
> >>
> >> To administer these schedulers, you'll need the user-level utilities
> >> from the package iproute2+tc at ftp://ftp.inr.ac.ru/ip-routing/
> >> --------------------------------
> >>
> >> Rik
> >>
> >> --
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