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/wieden+wlan .
Any tips welcome.
-L
Hi Lothar!
On Fri, February 29, 2008 8:36 pm, Lothar Gramelspacher wrote:
I am aware of m0n0wall and have played with it in my home environment, but have no experience how it you scale
What about pfSense [0]? It is based on m0n0wall and has some more features.
As stated in the Wiki [1], a 200 MHz system with 128 megs of RAM should suffice for up to 8 Mbps.
I run it on a WRAP (266 MHz AMD Geode CPU). On full utilization of my 20Mbps VDSL line with bittorrent (over 1000 parallel connections) and about 50 filter rules, CPU load never goes over 15%.
[0] http://www.pfsense.com [1] http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Hardware_requirements#Hardware_Sizing
Cheers, Manuel
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 08:36:43PM +0100, Lothar Gramelspacher wrote:
-local IT company booked a 2mbit/s SDSL line and distributes the bandwidth using WLAN
Has anyone tested if the Buffalo WRTG routers (with at least two different ethernet interfaces) are able to do traffic shaping ? aka is the CPU fast enough? (and is netfilter available on this architecture) ?
If yes, it would be about 65 CHF.
Whenever I have some time I will try this.
(else any PC even recycled faster than a Duron 500 will do)
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Lothar Gramelspacher -
Manuel Krummenacher -
schaefer＠alphanet.ch