Hi,
thanks for the answers.
Anybody around who has tested pfsense or other stuff in a similar setup as described below? Is it able to cope with (ab)users looking up the limited bandwith using torrent ando other p2p?
-L
On 29. Feb 2008, at 21:38, Reto Burkhalter wrote:
Hi Lothar
You may also want to have a look at pfSense [1] running on a ALIX platform [2]. Should be fast and flexible enough for your needs.
[1] http://www.pfsense.org/ [2] http://www.pcengines.ch/alix.htm
I think scaling is not your problem - 2 Mbps is not very scary.
Regards, Reto
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Lothar Gramelspacher [mailto:lothar@gramelspacher.ch] Gesendet: Freitag, 29. Februar 2008 20:37 An: swinog@swinog.ch Betreff: [swinog] affordable queueing solution for a small network?
Hi swinog,
in order to keep a small villages network in the blackforest operational I am looking for some advice how to implement a working queuing solution.
Background: -small village in a underdeveloped area concerning internet connectivity (aka black-forest/ Germany) has no DSL or alike high speed connectivity -local IT company booked a 2mbit/s SDSL line and distributes the bandwidth using WLAN -of course, some of the users "abuse" the system by contious emule, torrent and alike downloads -latency for other for "normal" use is increased
Therefore I look towards some advice to enable a fair bandwith distribution. -affordable (Open Source preferred) -enables some kind of provisioning -distributes bandwidth in a fair way -can filter/ slow down p2p to a lower priority
I am aware of m0n0wall and have played with it in my home environment, but have no experience how it you scale
I have some blog postings about that network at http://blog.gramels.info/blog/plugin/tag/wiede%3E n+wlan .
Any tips welcome.
-L
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-L