I would suggest a rate-limiting device like that available from Packeteer. It allows you to rate-limit certain classes of traffic without changing your router configuration. It might work really well for this situation. You might also try CAR on the incoming interfaces.
This is made more difficult because you don't have a good way to influence which T1 incoming traffic arrives on. Sure, you can load-balance outgoing requests for content but those don't use up much bandwidth. It's the incoming traffic that gets you and that's the hardest to influence. If you're running BGP, you can advertise the student network addresses out one interface while advertising the admin staff addresses out the other. If you then advertise the aggregate out both links you'll have a failover should problems arise. This isn't perfect but it might help. You might end up needing to take several different smaller steps in order to alleviate the problem. HTH, John >>> Chris Sweeting 8/19/02 2:10:33 PM >>> We have student sharing internet access with our adminstrative staff and the the students are down loading mp3's from the internet. The first thing we are trying to to is to route the traffic through different interface. Well the root of problems is the mp3 down load from Kazzar napster etc . any suggestion -----Original Message----- From: John Neiberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 4:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Trafic Shaping [7:51661] Policy-based routing would allow you to accomplish this goal. Look up PBR on CCO to get configuration details. Something like this would be easy to setup. One question: what specifically are you load-balancing? Web servers offering up content to outside users, or internal users accessing web servers on the outside? If it's the former then you might have some success; if it's the latter then it's almost pointless because the greatest amount of traffic would be incoming, not outgoing, and you have no control over that. Regardless, depending on what you're actually trying to accomplish, PBR may not be the best tool. We'd need more details to give a better answer. Regards, John >>> "Chris Sweeting" 8/19/02 1:51:57 PM >>> I have 2 T1 going to the Internet on a 2600 Cisco. I want to load balance in a way that a certain range go out one port and another range go out another port. Any suggestions Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=51669&t=51661 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
