From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Martin A. Brown" Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 23:59:51 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] Bandwidth control using Linux or other router Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org Hello all, : 1. Purchase a router which has some form of bandwidth management - this : would be expensive, rite ? You have to decide what is expensive for you. Time, money, expertise, control, or not having a software/networking vendor to vilify. : 2. Purchase a low end router with 1 lan 1 wan, and connects a dual LAN : linux before it. Will this additional hop slow down anything? Yes. But maybe not significantly enough to be a problem...depends on your pipe and usage on that pipe. Remember, it's ideal to perform traffic control on the bottleneck itself. Regardless, I'd suggest option 3 or option 1, depending on your answer to your own question in 1. : 3. Purchase a supported T1/E1 interface cards and plug it into the : Linux box. I recommend the Sangoma WAN cards. I've been using them for at least 3 years under linux, and they are well supported by Sangoma and the linux community (you'll see the driver in the distribution). http://www.sangoma.com/ I've had exactly one problem with the wanpipe/wanrouter software, and it had already been identified and fixed by the time I had filed the bug report with Sangoma. : This could be a problem for me because of support issues. What if it : does not properly? What if there are problems with the card or the : drivers ? You won't have problems with support for Sangoma's cards in the kernel nor technical support from Sangoma. -Martin -- Martin A. Brown --- SecurePipe, Inc. --- mabrown@securepipe.com _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/