why not iproute2? http://lartc.org/howto A linux box with several NICs is all you need, and you probably have that laying around the office somewhere. Even if the powers that be cringe at open source, they can't argue with free. -Brian On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 14:25:49 -0500, Jeff Rasmussen <jeff.rasmussen at gmail.com> wrote: > Does anyone have any experience with QoS for bandwidth management? > > I found some great articles about it but wanted to see if someone was > experienced enough to give me a price on creating a QoS device to > regulate our 400 employees outbound proxied web traffic and our 20 > simultaneous VPN clients and email traffic for everybody. > > The network engineer believes that a proprietary solution would cost > us around $10,000 - $20,000. He is not willing to work with open > source software but if I can show a bid for a cheaper, more > customizable device I believe that might sway him. > > Basically, we don't have enough bandwidth to go around. Our > department uses the VPN connections and would be winning to help fund > more bandwidth if we could guarantee some level of service and nobody > else is willing to pay for the increase for web browsing. > > -- > Jeff Rasmussen > GPG public key 0x9686C12F > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list