Re: Rate

> Message: 2
> From: "Alby" <[email protected]>
> To: "Jeroen Steenhuis \(Dutch Plating Power BV\)" <[email protected]>,
>         <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [LRP] Rate
> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 07:57:07 -0500
> 
>   That isn't possible unless its done from an application layer
> that limits the download bandwidth used. Unless something has
> changed, I don't know of any router which can tier bandwidth
> based on what port a packet is using. Bandwidth can be tiered
> per connection and/or network so that users on a certain network
> are capped as a whole. Even so, I don't know if a LRP router can
> do any of that.
> 
>  Sorry Jeroen, about the best you can do is crack heads on downloaders
> if they are hogging your bandwidth. Otherwise the only other possible
> scenerio would be to setup a network design where each workstation
> had its own router, and that router had a frame-relay pvc connection
> back to a gateway router. With that, you could limit the "overall"
> bandwidth per machine so that you allow enough to surf, but not
> enough to eat up the network's total bandwidth. Maybe allocate
> 10k per machine or some fraction of your total bandwidth. The down
> side to that is amount of hardware you'll need to deploy. And I don't
> know if an LRP router could run different protocols like FrameRelay
> since the interface cards are ethernet. Frame-Relay over Ethernet,
> I don't think its possible.
> 
>  Before I start thumbing through my CCNA book and typing up more
> jibberish, the overall answer I believe is (No).
> 
> -Alby

Without going into LRP specifically, this can be done in Cisco platforms,
so I'm sure that there is a mechanism to achieve the same on LRP or like.

In cisco terms its called policy routing.

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Dave
Networker Extrodinaire

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


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