Are there any DIY IP Accounting/Traffic Shaping Solutions?

Can anyone recommend low-cost traffic shaping/ip accounting DIY solutions?

My boss is asking me to implement some type of network traffic-shaping for
our webhosting business.

I have been looking into few commercial solutions such as Packeteer's
PacketShaper and Cisco's 3800 Integrated Service Router. Needless to say,
they are way too expensive for us to deploy. I need something that costs
around $1000 and rack-mountable. Thank in advance!




Harry E.

On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 13:34:59 -0400, Harry E. wrote:

> Can anyone recommend low-cost traffic shaping/ip accounting DIY solutions?

Linux can certainly do this. You'll probably have to invest more manpower
into it than you would a 'turn-key' solution from the like of Cisco though.

http://lartc.org/
http://lartc.org/wondershaper/
http://howtos.linux.com/guides/nag2/...counting.shtml
http://ipac-ng.sourceforge.net/

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Harry E. wrote:
> Can anyone recommend low-cost traffic shaping/ip accounting DIY solutions?
>
> My boss is asking me to implement some type of network traffic-shaping for
> our webhosting business.
>
> I have been looking into few commercial solutions such as Packeteer's
> PacketShaper and Cisco's 3800 Integrated Service Router. Needless to say,
> they are way too expensive for us to deploy. I need something that costs
> around $1000 and rack-mountable. Thank in advance!
>
>

www.etinc.com.

It's not $1000 though, but closer than what you've looked at.