>From what you are listing, the issue here is not LEAF but Linux. If Linux can do the job, LEAF can. Yes Linux can. As compared to other solutions, you have much more flexibility in Linux.
To cite a few: 1. You can change interface characteristics and ddefine queue lengths for every interface. 2. You can build redundancy using vrrp. 3. You can build complex traffic management systems. Tcng, htbinit and cbqinit are useful frontends for this. LEAF is a platform on this all this can run. You do not need a full blooded Linux machine with HDD for this. I think Bering/ WISP are good candidates for the following reasons: 1. Both are 2.4.18 based thus supporting tc. 2. Bering Kernel is patched for Devik's htb qdisc. 3. WISP has a built in bandwidth management script in shapecfg. WISP is based on CRAMfs which loads binaries into RO FS thus making it more secure than Bering. I'm looking at using LEAF for similar purposes and have gotten used to putting what I need to gether on Bering. I'm evaluating tcng as the tc script generator. Lack of a package has led me to use cbqinit/ htbinit. Shorewall packaged with Bering looks attractive. Since I do not need wireless support, I've stuck to Bering. HTH Mohan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of K a z Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 1:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [leaf-user] Could/should I use LEAF for this application? Hello LEAF users, We are going to be getting a full 100mbit line dropped to us in a colocation facility. We plan to resell part of this bandwidth to about about 20 dedicated and colocated clients. I am trying to come up with a cheap, effective & easy solution to serve these clients AND manage/throttle/cap their bandwidth consumption. I have been administrating my own (FreeBSD) boxes for about 7 years now, so I know my way around unix a bit. However, I have never been faced with networking at this level, and don't really know about RIP and the various bandwidth management options available. So far here is what I came up with: Solution #1 CISCO Layer3 Switch ~$2500: CISCO Catalyst WS-C2948G-L3 Layer 3 Switch. It Does RIP, does ACL rate-limiting for (crude?) bw management. Seems like a single-appliance solution -- price $2000-$3000 Ugh. Solution #2 ETINC software + Switch ~$1500: Banwidth Management software from www.etinc.com (applied on one of my boxes). I _think_ I could run that box as a router still... then all I would need would be a good 24-48 port switch (could someone recommend?). Price?... $700 for the software, ~$300 for the box, another $500 for the switch? (maybe thats too much).. Total ~$1500.00. Solution #3 -- LEAF + Switch = ~$800 (or less!): Could leaf handle this on a good box? All I would need then would be a good switch right? Keep in mind, it is a FULL 100mbit line - and we will be paying for the bandwidth. If we aren't getting "full wire speed" or whatever.. its probably because of some hardware bottleneck or something somewhere. So I sort of wanted to use good hardware - or at least a solution that would be compareable to the CISCO router. Thanks for reading, Kaz _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
