[c-nsp] Bandwidth Shaping / QOS

Paul Stewart pauls at nexicom.net
Thu Jul 14 16:55:02 EDT 2005


Wow... That's bizarre..;)  

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Vowell [mailto:brian at zipsend.net] 
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 4:49 PM
To: Church, Chuck
Cc: Paul Stewart; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net; Andre van der Merwe
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Bandwidth Shaping / QOS


I've found the cheapest and most reliable is a Linksys WRT54g loaded 
with firmware from http://www.dd-wrt.com/ does the trick better than 
anything else.  The QoS and traffic shaping settings are under 
"Applications & Gaming".


--b

Church, Chuck wrote:

>Paul,
>
>	I've used NBAR on many T1-connected sites with 1700 and 2600 routers

>and it's worked fine for P2P traffic.  Rarely see CPU over 10%, 
>although probably haven't been subjected to a DOS either.  I'm guessing 
>if the router you've got is 2650XM/3640 grade or higher, it'd work fine 
>with 10 meg traffic.
>
>
>Chuck Church
>Lead Design Engineer
>CCIE #8776, MCNE, MCSE
>Netco Government Services - Design & Implementation
>1210 N. Parker Rd.
>Greenville, SC 29609
>Home office: 864-335-9473
>Cell: 703-819-3495
>cchurch at netcogov.com
>PGP key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x4371A48D
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net 
>[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Paul Stewart
>Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 10:31 AM
>To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
>Subject: [c-nsp] Bandwidth Shaping / QOS
>
>We have an immediate need to shape some bandwidth based on applications 
>at a remote site.  It's a wireless serving area and it's getting 
>saturated currently with peer to peer traffic or we presume so.
> 
>I've played with NBAR a lot in the past but we've never put it into 
>production for the purposes for limited Kazaa etc...
> 
>Any thoughts on this?  One of our suppliers is pushing Allott 
>Netenforcer gear and I'm interested in trying some of it out versus 
>putting CPU load on
>the router at that location..?  Anyone used Allott gear and have
>feedback?
>Does Cisco make a standalone product good for this?
> 
>Thanks,
> 
>Paul
> 
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