As already stated, MikroTik RouterOS would handle the shaping side fine and price/performance is very hard to beat. While you could give your client access to the GUI it's not trivial and they'll probably break something at some point.... There are other options though, DHCP can have a rate limit key handed back to it as a RADIUS response, it can do similar but as a PPPoE AC, it has a hotspot feature which will rate limit based on auth credentials etc. It'd be easier/safer to give the client a GUI to a end user database rather than allowing them to modify the shaping stack direct. MikroTik provide their own user database as a package for RouterOS call userman... It *might* suffice.
RouterOS also has an API so you could go down that router, it's not a modern REST API though so is more difficult to get started with. Jody On Wednesday, 6 July 2016, Tom Smyth <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi lain > Yeah... Mikrotik Routers / Appliances run Router OS (a linux Kernel with > a GUI / CLI wrapped around it ) ... they are quite cheap for their > throughput capability and feature sets.... and you can select a model that > suits your thorughput requirements based on the CPU capabilities... as you > say Software works well but it is dependent on the hardware it runs on > being up to the task ... > > Cheers, > > Tom Smyth > > > On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 9:34 PM, Iain Grant <[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: > >> Appliances, unless they are actually doing something in hardware, are not >> worth the money. >> >> If you want to do stuff not in hardware, then a linux/bsd box will >> suffice. The issue you will face though is finding someone who knows how >> to do the traffic shaping. I don't know the low level shaping either, but >> I do know what software works. >> >> >> Iain >> >> On 6 July 2016 at 21:08, Tom Smyth <[email protected] >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: >> >>> Hi Richard, >>> >>> Mikrotik Router OS has some nice bandwidth management queues that can >>> shape the bandwidth nicely, and equalise usage between clients on the one >>> tier >>> (so that no one person can hog all the bandwidth)... >>> >>> it has a gui but it can be tricky... but if you get it setup right and >>> do a handover to the client they can tweak it in their own time after the >>> fact (but it is easy for them to mess things up im afraid...) >>> >>> but as costs go and features go it is very good... >>> >>> ease of use ... it is probably easier than anything cisco/ base linux >>> could do ... ) >>> >>> I hope this helps, >>> >>> Tom Smyth >>> >>> On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 8:42 PM, Richard Spragg <[email protected] >>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I’m looking for some advice - a client of ours has enquired about >>>> bandwidth shaping for their multi-tenanted office building. We supply them >>>> with ISP and they have around 20-30 companies onsite. They are looking to >>>> tier the provision, mostly as a revenue generator. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I understand you can get appliances to limit bandwidth for this >>>> specific purpose, but this is not an area we are familiar with – could >>>> anyone point me in the direction of a suitable solution? Be best if they >>>> can manage it themselves, so a nice web GUI would be preferable. 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