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From: Nick Rout <nick_at_taxlawyer.co.nz>
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 11:49:51 +1200
Message-ID: <001601c01926$50d40de0$0201a8c0@taxlawyer.co.nz>

Another reason to NOT just rely on the m10/11 as a firewall, put a linux
firewall in and do your firewalling and your b/w limiting there.

oooooopps its dan's list isn't it. you could use bsd too :-)

N
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From: "ChrisHellberg" <chellberg@ecnetwork.co.nz>
To: "Little, Craig (SSI-SIAP-NP5)" <craig.little@ssi.co.nz>;
<adsl@unixathome.org>
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 11:30 AM
Subject: Re: Bandwidth on the M10/11

"Little, Craig (SSI-SIAP-NP5)" wrote:
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> Does any one know if there is a command to reduce (throttle) the
> bandwidth consumption on the Nokia. We have a 10GB connection, and
> since we upgraded our proxy to use this connection (from a 128k
> international, 2meg local circuit), our consumption has peaked at 1GB
> traffic per day - even with the 10GB plan, that's a lot of excess
> usage charges. I'd like to reduce the bandwidth to dissuade the
> surfers from spending too much time online, and downloading
> everything in site just because it is fast now.
>
> Cisco routers allow you to set the bandwidth (in effect throttle the
> connection), so does the Nokia have a similar facility?
>
Craig,

I would doubt it on the Nokia, and since I'm a keen linux user, there is
a feature of the more recent kernels which allows bandwidth throttling,
CBQ I think it's called. Allows you to restrict b/w on a per IP basis
and set minimum and peak rates. Do a seach on freshmeat.net for
bandwidth limiting.

I can see the flames coming now because I didn't answer the question
directly about a solution on the Nokia :)

Chris Hellberg

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