This job is in Tennessee. Ben Barrett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: > >Check these great documents out, linux (or bsd) kernel is all you need: >http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Adv-Routing-HOWTO/ >http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Adv-Routing-HOWTO/lartc.qdisc.html >http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/ADSL-Bandwidth-Management-HOWTO/ > >I've never seen this one before, but it looks interesting... anyone know >if it is mature? >http://www.etinc.com/bw_software.htm > >Then of course there are a plethora of ways to do the observation part >of the management. I like snort and tcpdump, iirc they can share dump >data for analysis, but only snort uses a DB... >http://freshmeat.net/projects/iptraf/ >http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=snort=projects >http://www.snort.org/ >http://www.tcpdump.org/ >and of course things like this: >http://www.nero.net/cgi-bin/body.cgi?locale=CityEugene > >I do recall that there's a very specific tool (aside fromt what the docs >above mention) that is relatively popular in the linux realm, for simple >management like limiting bandwidth per address-space, that's a little >friendlier than mucking with the ip stack's queueing or ipchains... >but the methods of Chapter 9 above seem hard to beat!!! >(the second link provided) >And for the poor sod (hire me!) who has to sit at a workstation and >actively manage a number of machines, and/or machines with multiple >interfaces, I suggest gkrellm's, which have customizable network charts >to let you monitor any number of ports or port ranges, as well as >separate charts for each physical interface... there's also an snmp >plugin, but I have not used it. Good luck and ciaou => > > ben > > > >On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 22:42, Bob Crandell wrote: >> Hi, >> >> This message was sent to me. What should I tell him? >> >> "Do you use any bandwidth managing software or know of any that is worth a >> hill of beans?" >> >> Thanks > > -- Bob Crandell Assured Computing When you need to be sure. Cell 541-914-3985 FAX 240-371-7237 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.assuredcomp.com Eugene, Or. 97402
