Bit of an interesting one this..

Does anyone have any ideas on either a hardware or software bandwidth shaping solution?

im after something that can limit max throughput to say 128k.

its for a project im doing at work.. and its going to involve building a test area, setup to replicate one of my companys typical branches.. each branch has a 128k IPstream WAN connection, so i need to find a way to limit connection speed on a mini-network to this.

ideas anyone?

Couple of cisco routers back to back with the serial ports set to run at 128k?

Thats what we do , but then we have dozens of the things to play with which you might not

Couple of cisco routers back to back with the serial ports set to run at 128k?

Thats what we do ' date=' but then we have dozens of the things to play with which you might not[/quote']

Hmmmmm we might get away with that, we use cisco routers alot

cheers for that

Hmmmmm we might get away with that' date=' we use cisco routers alot

cheers for that [/quote']

Only thing is that you do need a pair of cables (one of which is less common) to do this rather than just the one as one of the routers needs to force a clock rate on the other as normally they just pick up the speed from the BT line. I can't off the top of my head remember the name for the cable in question but if you have any cisco experts they will know what they need.

Now all I have to do is make sense of the documentation for the Dell switches I have here so I can get VRRP working correctly on monday when I have to pretend to be an expert on them :( :confused:

We've recently had a Packeteer solution installed at work, which is a brilliant bandwidth shaping/packet sniffing option. It comes at quite an extravagent price though.