[KLUG Members] Bandwidth throttling

[Adam Williams]

>What is the best way to control bandwidth useage?
>Scenario 1:
>Office with DSL connection shared by 2 IP networks (192.168.10.x/24 and
>192.168.11.x/24)
>Scenario 2:
>T1 trunk shared by 5 IP networks (172.16.x.x/16, 172.17.x.x/16,
>172.18.x.x/16, 172.19.x.x/16, 172.20.x.x/16)
>Would I then want to put a proxy server on each segment (so their own
>bandwidth is not used unnecessarily)?

All these networks could easily share a single proxy server (squid) simply 
give him an IP address on each subnet.

If you want all (1 + 2) to share links you can dedicate each to their own 
proxy with it's own connection or establish a peer between the two 
proxies + something like a BGP feed to maximize efficiency (I assyne eah 
is from a diffrent ISP).

I'm not sur what you mean by "control"?

If you want to give one network priority you can simply do that at the IP 
layer.  The proxy itself 'operationally' doesn't care,  it simply has a 
page cached or not.

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