Hi,

thanks for the answers.

Anybody around who has tested pfsense or other stuff in a similar setup as described below? Is it able to cope with (ab)users looking up the limited bandwith using torrent ando other p2p?

-L

On 29. Feb 2008, at 21:38, Reto Burkhalter wrote:

Hi Lothar

You may also want to have a look at pfSense [1] running on a ALIX platform [2]. Should be fast and flexible enough for your needs.

[1] http://www.pfsense.org/ [2] http://www.pcengines.ch/alix.htm

I think scaling is not your problem - 2 Mbps is not very scary.

Regards, Reto

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-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Lothar Gramelspacher [mailto:lothar@gramelspacher.ch] Gesendet: Freitag, 29. Februar 2008 20:37 An: swinog@swinog.ch Betreff: [swinog] affordable queueing solution for a small network?

Hi swinog,

in order to keep a small villages network in the blackforest operational I am looking for some advice how to implement a working queuing solution.

Background: -small village in a underdeveloped area concerning internet connectivity (aka black-forest/ Germany) has no DSL or alike high speed connectivity -local IT company booked a 2mbit/s SDSL line and distributes the bandwidth using WLAN -of course, some of the users "abuse" the system by contious emule, torrent and alike downloads -latency for other for "normal" use is increased

Therefore I look towards some advice to enable a fair bandwith distribution. -affordable (Open Source preferred) -enables some kind of provisioning -distributes bandwidth in a fair way -can filter/ slow down p2p to a lower priority

I am aware of m0n0wall and have played with it in my home environment, but have no experience how it you scale

I have some blog postings about that network at http://blog.gramels.info/blog/plugin/tag/wiede%3E n+wlan .

Any tips welcome.

-L

http://blog.gramels.info/blog

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-L