[TriLUG] bandwidth provisioning using Linux or BSD?

[Aaron Joyner]

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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