Hello, I think this solution is quite good to run at home or on small ISP backbone. Then you will loose a complete day by installing a box to do this kind of solution (Maybe more). Plus the limitation of ports ... Actually the policy maps are (for me) the best solution.
Cu, Nicolas -----Message d'origine----- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Viktor Steinmann Envoy� : lundi, 16. f�vrier 2004 17:11 � : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Re: [swinog] Limiting Bandwidth on Cisco 3550 XL Switchport (maybe not the thing you're looking for, but IHMO the best solution) If you have a spare machine (can be a 486), you can install FreeBSD with dummynet (trafficshaper) there and simply enter the IPs of the machines you would like to slow down (dummynet can even create random packet loss or latencies etc. :-)) Of course the machine needs 2 network interfaces and is basically a single point of failure... but it's cheap :-) If you have 2 machines, you can put them both in and configure them as bridges - then your single point of failure is gone and you have a nice trafficshaper-solution, which can even be used as a stateful firewall to protect the hosts attached to that switch... (with ipfw2) Cheers, Viktor On Monday 16 February 2004 16:58, Tobias Glasow wrote: > Hi Guys, > > i'm looking for a fast an easy way to setup a maximum bandwith a port > of a cisco catalyst 3550 switch can use (e.g. 512 kbit/s) (wow, a > sentence with 3 "a"'s :)) Options like limit-rate are not available :( > > Does anyone have a short piece of config for me? > > Thanks, > Tobias > -- > Magnet.ch AG > G�terstrasse 86 > CH-4053 Basel > T 0842 420 420 > F 0842 420 422 > eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > WWW: http://www.magnet.ch > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Magnet.ch AG - Ihr unabh�ngiger Internet Provider > ---------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maillist-Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/swinog%40swinog.ch/ ---------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maillist-Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/swinog%40swinog.ch/ ---------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maillist-Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/swinog%40swinog.ch/
