[Web4lib] bandwidth control

[Cary Gordon]

The best and/or most economical way to do this depends on the skills
of your system administrators, if any. Devices like the one from
Barracuda are expensive (they start at about $2k with service, but
come with a free t-shirt), but a good call if you don't have access to
firewall configuration and administration skills. If you can read and
understand the Cisco QoS document referred to in a previous post, and
can translate that into a configuration scheme for your Cisco device,
then that is a great way to go.

If you have a reasonable amount of skill (and/or patience) and little
money, your can build a m0n0wall firewall (open-source, linux based
firewall), which will run on almost any hardware and give you a great
deal of control over your network traffic.

>> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org on behalf of Ed Erjavek
>> Sent: Tue 11/10/2009 5:44 PM
>> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
>> Subject: [Web4lib] bandwidth control
>>
>>
>>
>> Does anyone have a recommendation of any devices that control or moderate
>> bandwidth so that patrons viewing video sites can't use up excessive
>> amounts
>> of our available bandwidth?
>>
>> Thanks, Ed
>>
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Cary Gordon
The Cherry Hill Company
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