Re: pf/altq

Thank you for your response David.
We basically need to limit the bandwidth of each one of our
customers
based on what they have contracted. Some customers have simple,
mostly
web traffic, while some others have very complex patterns with lots
of
DNS/mail/web/ssh/etc.

From what you are describing, it sounds doable with decent hardware. It's certainly worth a shot, pf/altq is fairly easy to work with, and shouldn't take you more than a few hours to get FreeBSD installed, the network configured, the rules in place, and the traffic shaping going. Tons of howtos all over the net. I used the OpenBSD documentation on PF to get myself going, from what I remember.

But your telling me that sustained 80Mbps is possible tells me that
it
is a robust system.

Like most things coming from the OpenBSD project, I think "robust" accurate describes it. I just had issues with hardware reliability, I couldn't do N+1 redundancy on all parts like I can with hardware routers. BGP/etc was also a mess to work with, so for my situation it was better to go the HW route. That said, I did very much like the flexibility of having a general purpose machine/OS - it allowed me to do some creative things that I might be limited on with the pure HW solutions from the likes of Cisco/Juniper/etc.

We haven't even started testing, but your response gives us the
confidence to at least spend the time testing.

Great! I don't think you'll be disappointed. :)

Thanks again David.

Anytime!

Cheers,
David
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