[ale] Any suggestions re: bandwidth partitioning?

JK jknapka at kneuro.net
Fri Jun 4 18:04:57 EDT 2010


I think the Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control tools should
be able to do what you need:

http://www.lartc.org/

It is not trivial to set up, but all the necessary facilities should
be available on most Linux distros by default.

-- JK


On 6/4/2010 6:19 AM, Reggie Euser wrote:
> I'm looking at installing 3 bonded T1's to be shared between 2 companies.
> I'd like to create a fixed partition so one company can use up to 1Mbps but
> no more and the rest of the bandwidth would be dedicated to the second
> company. The ISP doesn't offer that configuration or a configuration
> capability but says we can do what we like.
>
> Any suggestions re:  solutions?
>
> Is there a linux solution that would do this via some sort of intermediate
> gateway?
>
> I've looked at a number of appliances, but really don't want to spend $2500+
> on a box if I can help it...
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
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