On Tue, 9 May 2000, Owen Connolly wrote:
> However, they were showing us this pretty cool product that sits behind
> the router and shapes traffic according to a policy defined by you....
pretty much what linux 2.3 can do (and it can do a lot more too).
course i guess the packeteer is easier to setup. And available now. (2.4
aint out yet).
> My only problem with it is the way the 3 products are split the entry
> level box only does up to a 384K pipe, however the next gen entry level
> seems to do up to E1...
>
no such problem with 2.3. Just get the right hardware.
out of curiosity, how much is this device? And if your router is decent
(eg Cisco IOS 12 has a lot of traffic shaping features, doesn't it?) why
would you need it?
--paulj
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