Hi all, I need to do traffic control on a 2 Mbit/s link with 100 users on the LAN. What machine do I need (CPU, RAM, HDD) ? thanks ------------------------------------------------ Franck BALAZOT (fbalazot@aeta.fr) AETA.COM 361, Avenue du Général De Gaulle 92140 CLAMART FRANCE Tél:01.41.36.12.93 ------------------------------------------------
Franck BALAZOT wrote:> > Hi all, > > I need to do traffic control on a 2 Mbit/s link with 100 users on the > LAN. > > What machine do I need (CPU, RAM, HDD) ?If you only want to do (static) routing without firewalling/NAT then an old Pentium 100MHz with 64MB should do it. Concerning the HDD: get the smallest you can buy nowadays. Juri
In fact I want to manage the bandwitdth with Class Based Queueing with iproute2. Perharps a 100Mhz CPU isn''t powerfull enough ? Juri Haberland wrote:> Franck BALAZOT wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I need to do traffic control on a 2 Mbit/s link with 100 users on the > > LAN. > > > > What machine do I need (CPU, RAM, HDD) ? > > If you only want to do (static) routing without firewalling/NAT then an > old Pentium 100MHz with 64MB should do it. Concerning the HDD: get the > smallest you can buy nowadays. > > Juri > > _______________________________________________ > LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl > http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://ds9a.nl/2.4Routing/-- ------------------------------------------------ Franck BALAZOT (fbalazot@aeta.fr) AETA.COM 361, Avenue du Général De Gaulle 92140 CLAMART FRANCE Tél:01.41.36.12.93 ------------------------------------------------
At 07:02 AM 7/9/01 +0200, Franck BALAZOT wrote:>In fact I want to manage the bandwitdth with Class Based Queueing with >iproute2. >Perharps a 100Mhz CPU isn''t powerfull enough ? > >Juri Haberland wrote: > > > > > If you only want to do (static) routing without firewalling/NAT then an > > old Pentium 100MHz with 64MB should do it. Concerning the HDD: get the > > smallest you can buy nowadays. > > > > Juri > > > > _______________________________________________I haven''t had any difficulties running NAT/Firewalling with a Pentium 90 MHz with 48 Megs of RAM. Currently, I am not running iproute2 or doing any shaping (just lurking to pick up information until I have a chance to recompile my kernel and give it a go) I''m using ipchains and ipmasqadm The machine is also running bind (to provide a local caching name server for my DNS requests) and xntp (to provide time synchronization). Approximately 10 computers/workstations are connected on my local network and I have no services open to external connection other than incoming mail (port 25 which is forwarded to an internal mail server). Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------ Steve Bush (srbush@charybdis.com), Charybdis Technologies, Inc. "There was a point to this narrative, but it has presently escaped the chronicler''s mind." --Douglas Adams (1952-2001)
Franck BALAZOT wrote:> > In fact I want to manage the bandwitdth with Class Based Queueing with iproute2. > Perharps a 100Mhz CPU isn''t powerfull enough ?I''m not quite sure but it could work. If you intend to by a new computer than any will do (assuming that you cannot by anything less than a PI-233)...> Juri Haberland wrote: > > > Franck BALAZOT wrote: > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I need to do traffic control on a 2 Mbit/s link with 100 users on the > > > LAN. > > > > > > What machine do I need (CPU, RAM, HDD) ? > > > > If you only want to do (static) routing without firewalling/NAT then an > > old Pentium 100MHz with 64MB should do it. Concerning the HDD: get the > > smallest you can buy nowadays.Cheers, Juri
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Franck BALAZOT wrote:> In fact I want to manage the bandwitdth with Class Based Queueing with iproute2. > Perharps a 100Mhz CPU isn''t powerfull enough ?(Please answer below the quote and cut the irrelevant parts.) We had set up a bandwidth managing router with a 3-level class tree, and as far as we''ve seen, it works fine with a Pentium-90. I recommend you should try it first.