[FC] Bandwidth Management Guidance

[Mustafa Qasim]

On 7/17/07, Mustafa Qasim <alajal at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 7/17/07, Deepak Shrestha <d88pak at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Well! Sir Deepak first you should define that either you want to
> > control
> > > overall network traffic through your [Router/Gateway] or you just want
> > to
> > > control the traffic to anf from the Internet.
> > >
> > > If you wanna make ur Fedora machine the routing mechine to control
> > traffic
> > > between your clients then my suggestion wasn't for u.
> > >
> > > But if you want to make your Fedora machine the gateway to Interent
> > for your
> > > clients and after that you want to bound your users to send/receive
> > data in
> >
> > > a fixed bandwidth e.g 5KB/per user and I thinks it's really what you
> > want
> > > then for that purpose you can use Squid Server's "Delay Pool"
> > functionality
> > > to restrict a certin part of user e.g
> > > a)User of Department A gets 5KB each
> > > b)USers of Department B gets 30KB each... n so on
> > >
> > > Or u can put a single policy on a;; the users...
> > > a) Ever user will get no more then 5KB.
> > >
> > > So, wat do u say??
> >
> >
> > Thank you all for your valuable suggestions!
> >
> > I guess I want to allocate the fixed bandwidth (upstream/downstream)
> > for each of the clients. Currently any station can use up the full
> > bandwidth if application running in that station demands that, slowing
> > down all the rest. What I wanted to do is allocate each machine a
> > fixed dedicated bandwidth. For example station1 is given dedicated
> > 250kbps, station2 is given 150kbps. By dedicated means no machine can
> > go beyond their allocated bandwidth even if bandwidth is available,
> > which also means that somebody should not be disturbed by somebody
> > downloading and surfing habits.
> >
> > Nowadays Its very easy to consume bandwidth (by doing everything at a
> > same time)
> > 1. Open few YouTubes in different tabs of firefox browser ( all busy
> > donloading videos)
> > 2. Download some large files (ftp, http etc).
> > 3. While waiting for that to finish, Listen music from Imeem
> > 4. Even download torrent while doing all that
> > 5. Now you can be chatting too.
> >
> > Now imagine the rest of the users who wants to surf.
> >
> > I guess I made myself clear now.
> >
> > Can somebody suggest me how can I do this?
> > Piece of configurable hardware?? (might cost lot.....)
> > Can this be implemented in linux as router/gateway?? how?? (general
> > idea will be fine)
> >
> > Thanks again.
> >
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>
> Well as u said in ur 1st post that
>
> All my computer in LAN are connnected via switch to ADSL modem router for
> > internet.
> >
>
> So u didn't have any gateway machine but u want to setup one on a Linux
> box. Well, we waste a lot of time by telling a semi-geek dummy answer and a
> newbie with semi-geek answers, so i would like to know that where are u
> standing brother right now.
>
> Did you have ever worked in Linux before? If not so, it will take a little
> time to be comfortable with Linux.
>
> Do you have any idea about this situation from general networking or
> Microsoft aspect?
>
> Do you have idea about the role of proxy server?
>
> I am familiar with such situation where you are responsible for
> maintaining Internet service to client in a office. And I've seen a proxy
> server in almost every network to save you bandwidth and boost Internet
> speed. Did you visited the links
>
> http://www.squid-cache.org/
> here you can know about SQUID service and how it boosts your internet
> service bu caching objects.
>
> http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/MiscFeatures
> Here you will get your answer to set a policy on clients so they will
> consume more bandwidth then what u have defined.
>
> If you want work in GUI then here is a nice package called Webmin. You can
> administrator your network in GUI. Check out it here
> http://www.webmin.com/
>
> I think your have got a much clear answer from everyone. Other members
> guided you towards bandwidth controlling packages and I gave u the solution
> for Internet service management that I've worked on. So, know study the all
> the links that u got in reply to ur thread and move further.
> --
> Mustafa Qasim
> Lahore, Pakistan
> Cell: 0321-6614972
> URL: http://www.mustu.info
>

Sorry, typo mistake

http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/MiscFeatures
> Here you will get your answer to set a policy on clients so they will
> consume more bandwidth then what u have defined.


Actually It's that " They will not consume more bandwidth "

-- 
Mustafa Qasim
Lahore, Pakistan
Cell: 0321-6614972
URL: http://www.mustu.info
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