Dave G

Does anyone know of any bandwith management/QoS packages that run on W2K? I'm looking to run something on my firewall and control my internet connection. I can find plenty for Linux/FreeBSD/Solaris, but nothing for W2K.

Thanks,

Dave

Jeff Wiltshire

What Firewall are you running ?

Dave G

Jeff

That just depends on what I'm trying at the time! This is just for my own set-up. Do you know one that includes bandwidth management, apart from FW1?

Dave

Jeff Wiltshire

Dave

FW-1 does have a bandwidth management capability called Floodgate but it costs big money....

I don't know of any QoS/CoS software for Win2K but this is become common in appliances like SonicWALL, Netscreen etc. Normally Proxies have this in them rather than Firewalls......have you checked ISA to see if that has this functionality ?


Jeff

mega_stream

We got 8 packetshapers here, superb devices

Dave G

Cheers Jeff,

Floodgate would be my ideal choice especially NG FP3 is out, but would have to 'acquire' a copy which I'd rather not do.

Dave

Dave G

Used Packeteers for a few years now. As you say great devices, but not exactly W2K compatible.

Looks like a move to FreeBSD....

Dave

RVeiga

Dave G

AT setting the date back will enable U to evaluate FW-1 with FG longer the the default 30 days.

U will need more than one eval key.

..r

Dave G

RVeiga,

Cheers for that. But my main problem with FW1 is it's support for a dynamic addressing on it's external interface which I need. I;ve tried it in the past and not found it too good.

I've not used FG, but know FW1 well. Up until FP2 FG used DiffServ as it's QoS method so not good for Internet traffic. I've heard that FP3 provides other methods of QoS. Does anyone know if this is correct?

Dave

AlexM

Try packetshaper - details at www.packeteer.com

Cheers,

Alex


[Edited by AlexM - 10/12/2002 10:55:15 PM]