Bandwith Shaping

[CDX825]

Wondering what everyone is using for bandwith shaping. I'm looking for something I can set the limits by IP. I want to be able to to set the upload and down load for and IP.

[samcamfilms]

BUMP!

[CDX825]

Thanks for the bump! 8) Would figure someone would have some input on this by now. :?:

[WHT]

NetEqualizer

[CDX825]

Someone mentioned mikrotiks RouterOS will do the same. I have not tried it but was wondering. I like the sounds of netequlizer but just cant swing that much cash for one right now. Looking for alternatives for right now. Thanks

[MaximumISP]

If you need real cheap
Tomato Firmware on a Linksys WRT 54G router
works really well for me

[samcamfilms]

I like tomato...

But is their an equivalent that can run on ubuntu or as a server its self on a pc?

What would be the best free / open source solution?

I'm seriously thinking using SQUID but not sure if it could pass about 5-10 MB (not mbit) of connections.

[mohave_steve]

The Colubris & Nomadix gateways offer the ability to offer multiple bandwidth plans and assign customers to different plans.

[CDX825]

Found this and thought it was pretty interesting http://www.bctes.com/
Seems easy to use and can be run on a computer.

[MaximumISP]

I use Pfsense as my core router

[netmaster]

Kind a offtopic, but I have tried to move my core router to pFsense (1.1 and 1.2) twice, and it failed miserably on both times.

[MaximumISP]

Sorry to hear that netmaster I have never had any problems with it

Previously I was using Smoothwall but we needed more advanced
shaping and other features after trying pretty much every open source product available imho it was the best of them all

[netmaster]

I've used HP Proliant DL140 hardware. First time (with 1.1), was some bug in BSD network stack or Broadcom gigabit card driver. Second part every fragmented large UDP packet got dropped. After searching answers for a day, switched to Intel NIC's, but then was another problem with UDP and so on. In second time (with pFsense 1.2.1), was the UDP issues fixed, but if connection count (or state table or whatever it was called) rised up to 250000, packets got dropped again randomly. Better part of prime time, there was steady 5% packet loss on my uplink. State table size was configured to 500000. Because core router can not be changed every day, and 100Mbps traffic with 300K connections can not be simulated easily in the lab, I dropped pFsense all together. Later, to rule out hardware issues, installed Zeroshell to the same hardware. This was working and not a single packets got lost. However, due to it's never ending beta status, and bloatware nature, I did not like it very much. After all, it was loading in almost any available iptables and netifilter modules, so even with basic configuration, it was damn slow. With my old router, packets got delayed for about 1 ms. In Zeroshell, with 200K line in conntrack table - up to 20-30 ms. For the conclusion, I realized, that we need a router with basic IP filtering and without connection tracking or any other fancy stuff. Custom build OpenWRT will be the next choice.

anyway, I am open to suggestions for heavy duty core routers

[slithral]

I find using ubiquiti's traffic shapping works well. figure even 5 meg connections by 1 meg don't mak ethe proc sweat ... just figure out a mechenism @ the AP to kill their access upon no pay ... ;)

[rodneal]

Hey All,
I've been using Powercode since they started 7-8 yrs ago.
They just got bought out and we are waiting to see what happens but it's been good for us.
Been bumps but we have always worked them out.
A good total management system for the price.
Rod