At 07:19 PM 5/13/99 -0300, you wrote:
>�Hola!
>
>> >G'day One and All,
>> >I know linux can do traffic shapping on a per interface basis, but can
>> >it do it on a per protocol basis. I have had the fortune to play with
>> >one of ascends packeteer units over the last couple of days, that allows
>> >packet shaping on in and outbound traffic on a per protocol basis. It
>> >also allows a QOS to be assigned to different protocols, so that certian
>> >traffic has priority over others.
>> >Well I am quite impressed with the results(although not the price). And
>> >would like to know if linux can do any of this.
>
>> If you want the results without the "price", our product for Linux is $495.
>> We actually have a much higher capacity than packeteer...we have customers
>> limiting thousands of hosts on multiple 100Mb/s lines with one box.
>Sorry, but i believe that this list is not open to commercial spam. BTW,
>i'm now working in a project that involves linux boxes working as routers
>and i was looking at your products and Sangoma's ones, and i couldn't find
>the sources of the drivers for your products. Am i blind or you just provide
>binary drivers?
He asked for something, I answered. Your definition of "spam" is defective.
do you get source with the packeteer? nah.
You can have archaicly designed cards with simple source, or well-supported
binaries, plus our bandwidth manager is included with the boards. A
mercedes or a vega with a repair manual. Your choice.
>
>And could you please justify this:
>
> Linux uses packet-driver style network interfaces that are
> somewhat klunky compared to 'BSD. Optimized for ethernet, they are
> still tweaking the specs regularly in an effort to support a
> multitude of protocols with different basic requirements. For this
> reason, Linux doesn not enjoy the stability (in terms of lack of
> bugs and loss of functionality across versions) that 'BSD enjoys.
yes, quite easily. 2.2 is substantially different from 2.0, and lots of
things that worked with 2.0 dont port cleanly to 2.2. 2.2 is a whole new
experience because a large part of the core code is new. THAT is what Im
talking about. The FreeBSD code base, for example, is stable in that just
about everything that ran under 2.2.8 runs under 3.1. 3.1 is a superset of
v2.2. BSD is not still twiddling with core network code....Linux gets a new
face every major release. 2.2 is much better than 2.0, but its a major pain
for systems integrators who use things like gated, snmp, etc, which is who
we sell to.
dennis
Emerging Technologies, Inc.
http://www.etinc.com
ISA and PCI T1/T3/V35/HSSI Cards for FreeBSD and LINUX
HSSI/T3 UNIX-based Routers
Bandwidth Manager
http://www.etinc.com/bwmgr.htm
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