HELP. bandwidth management/control

[whenever]

Hope someone have a use of this in the future, I have found 2 cheap way of doing this:
1) using Linux's CBQ, but you have to subnet your IPs, you would lost alot of IPs if you have only 254 hosts(/24)

2) using BSD, recompile your kernel with bridge,firewall and dummynet support, you don't need to configure any of you NICs with address. Bring up your bridge, it should pass packets just like a hardware bridge/switch.  Setup a pipe to the dummynet, then limit bandwidth to hosts, class, or by mac address from the dummynet. It also allow you to setup queuing and equal bandwidth to all the workstations that's sharing the same link.  With this setup, I don't have to touch my network configuration and use up any ip address.  Transparent firewall can be setup pretty much the same way, just don't apply any bandwidth management.

btw, HAPPY THANKSGIVING

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 10:20:17AM -1000, whenever wrote:
> I posted this once, for some reason I don't see it show up on the list.
> Hope someone can help me on this:
>       I have a DS1 circuit and 8bit routable address (254 hosts).  I am looking for an active device that can limit bandwidths.  I need to give 1.288 Mb to one host on the network, the other systems share the leftover 256kb.  Here's what I been looking at: setup 2 subnet, I think my cisco router can do ip subzero(IOS 11.3 and above?).  Setup one of the ethernet port's BW to 256k, does anyone know this way works? Could it really limit the BW based on the interface setup?  I only have it setup as one subnet right now, if the above works, I just have to change the flat setup to 2 subnets, then I lost 1/2 of the IPs.  I know switches works on layer 2, but I dig around with a 3Com Superstack II 3300 anyway just to hope it has layer 3 for bw management. I saw BW control for that switch, but it's only for traffic management under heavy load, not able to limit bw on a port.  I would love to hear anyone have a solution or know any device can do that. 
> 
> Thanks
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