Just an fyi and actually non relevant, Last I heard, we use 3 T-3's, and the city was working on putting in an OCR. But, that was over one year ago, so I'm not sure about it now. kdl Bennett Todd wrote: > It definitely sounds like the T1 is saturating --- but it would never > hurt to more-positively document that. If you can get router statistics > on line utilization that would help. > > Given that they're using up the T1, one good question is, do they want > to buy more bandwidth? If so then by all means do so. But people doing > big downloads can saturate _anything_ (I know --- I like to do tricks > like mirror the entire Red Hat site:-). > > So if other users are noticing degraded response, I'd look into > bandwidth management solutions. Cisco has some traffic shaping options > for recent IOS releases, there's dummynet[1] (for FreeBSD --- freely > available) and the Bandwidth Manager[2] (for FreeBSD, BSDI, and NetBSD, > $500). > > And worst comes to worst, you may well be able to do the deed if you > force the big downloaders to go through a separate set of proxies, and > put a mechanism in place --- e.g. a slip line running at 115kbps --- to > throttle their bandwidth. > > -Bennett > > [1] <URL:http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ip_dummynet/> > [2] <URL:http://www.etinc.com/bwmgr.htm> -- Kelly D. Lucas | Netscape Communications kdlucasat_private | Server Test Engineer http://people.netscape.com/kdlucas/ | (650)937-3073 "All opinions are my own, and not Netscapes"
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