From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stef Coene Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 07:49:27 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] Minimum System Requirements? 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 On Saturday 26 April 2003 02:33, ambitious_llama wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new here and to mailing lists in general so apologies in advance for > breaches in etiquette. I respond well to constructive criticism. > > I'm curious what kind of hardware requirements are needed for effective > traffic shaping and control. > > For example, could a P200 with 48MB RAM handle limiting, shaping, > NATing, and firewalling traffic from 5 - 6 clients on a 1.5Mbps/192kbps > cable line? It also depends on how many active classes you will have. If you create 5000000 classes but there are only 2 active classes, no problem. But 5000000 active classes will burn your CPU. The same story for iptables rules and tc filters. Stef -- stef.coene@docum.org "Using Linux as bandwidth manager" http://www.docum.org/ #lartc @ irc.oftc.net _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/