[3489] in linux-net channel archive
Re: shaper or whatever
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dennis)
Tue Jun 25 14:53:03 1996
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 10:51:34 -0400
To: Mike Kilburn <mike@lserv.conexio.co.za>
From: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
>
>> which is physical simulation, and you're addressing some other issue
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>One could build a gateway with N*115kbps (using eql) back-to-back async
>PPP between ethernets/WANs in a single box with some low cost mulitport
>cards to achive this also. A sofware only solution is also needed.
>
This is exactly what people DON'T want to do. Plus it kills the machine,
while you could serve many hosts on an ethernet with hardly any load. It also
doesnt allow you to have different customers at different speeds on the same
machine. Its really not acceptable except for the really, really little guys.
Dennis
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