[TriLUG] bandwidth provisioning using Linux or BSD?

[Greg Brown]

Aaron,

Thanks for the info.  For some reason I had it set in my mind that iptables
was not capable of doing this kind of thing.  Personally I'd prefer to go
with OpenBSD's pf.  Can you provide a simple config for the following:

Assume: inbound and outbound bandwidth are both 10 meg 10/10
Gateway Interface: some routeable IP address
Internal network: 192.168.1.0/24
Internal Interface: 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0
Server A: (connected to a L2 switch) 192.168.1.20
Server B: (connected to the same L2 switch) 192.168.1.21

I'd like to give both server A and server B 4 megs of bandwidth in and out
but I'd like them to be able to burst to the full 10 meg if bandwidth above
4 meg is unused.

Does that all make sense?

Greg


On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Aaron Joyner <aaron at joyner.ws> wrote:

> You can readily do all this with OpenBSD's pf or Linux's iptables/tc.
> The former is relatively easy, the latter a good bit more complicated.
>  Both do the job, but I suspect since you're asking about competitors
> to a specific product (which I know nothing about), I assume you're
> expecting an http or at least ncurses style guided interface.  Neither
> of my suggestions have this, although there are possibly wrappers
> around them, I'm not familiar with any of them.  If you need
> suggestions with pf or tc, ask away!
>
> Aaron S. Joyner
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey all.  I'm in search for a Packeteer-like device that is OSS, or that
> is
> > commercial yet runs on a Linux or BSD box (OSS greatly preferred).  Like
> a
> > Packeteer I'd like to be able to define slices of available bandwidth to
> > specific IP addresses (X meg guaranteed to device x.x.x.x with Y burst if
> > bandwidth is available, etc) - and the complicated thing here is I'd like
> to
> > use IPv6 for host addresses.  But the the IPv6 thing aside I'd like to
> know
> > what the OSS competitors to Packeteer are and if you have used any I'd
> like
> > to know what you thought of the product.
> >
> > Greg
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