[CUWiN-Dev] Re: QoS Implementations

[Aaron Huslage]

This is standard NetBSD stuff. Just use it. I don't know what the  
problem is, exactly? You could use NoCat or something to authenticate  
each MAC into a ruleset or something, I guess.
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On Nov 30, 2005, at 7:10 AM, John Atkinson wrote:

> I have very little bandwitdth.  Right now 128/32 kbps.  I'd like to  
> be able to prevent a node from hogging all of it with a big  
> download.  I would like to assign each of the Internet Sharers an  
> alloted amount of bandwidth, but still allow it access to the full  
> bandwidth when the network is not busy.
>
> I use Hierarchical Token Buckets and Stochastic Fairness Queueing  
> on a debian proxy to achieve this with my wired lan, where I have a  
> certain amount of bandwidth allocated to each of the machines in  
> the classroom and the CUWin node.  So I can control how much  
> bandwidth all of the users of the wireless network, as a whole,  
> have access to.  But I haven't figured out a way to control the  
> individual user, or nodes, on the wireless sub-network.
>
> Right now I tell people that they can only hook one PC up to their  
> node for Internet access.  But I have no manageable way to monitor  
> that remotely.  Ideally people would sign-on for a guaranteed share  
> of bandwidth, and they could do whatever they want with it.
>
> At the moment all of my nodes are low-resource, so anything not  
> burned onto the image is lost at reboot.  Maybe it would be  
> possible to burn individual images for a few specified amounts of  
> bandwidth.  That wouldn't be secure in the long run, but it might  
> bridge us until WiFiDog implements their QoS goals.
>
> Regards,
>
> John
>
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