[84489] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: rate limiting bandwidth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Kinsella)
Tue Sep 13 21:19:02 2005
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 18:14:03 -0700
From: John Kinsella <jlk@thrashyour.com>
To: Micah McNelly <micah@style.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: John Kinsella <jlk@thrashyour.com>
In-Reply-To: <43276189.5070608@style.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
I'm pretty fond of the the Packeteer gear. The API is pretty decent,
I can get a pretty good range of stats off the box in flexible formats
(tab or comma delimited, or in an XML format). Config-wise, I believe
I can change just about anything on the box, including running commands
remotely, and uploading/downloading files. The box's ability to sniff
traffic for a few days and know what protocols are in use is pretty
spiffy, from what I've seen.
I've used the Peribit gear as well, but not as heavily and I don't
know of an API (not saying one doesn't exist, I just don't know of it).
It seems to be decent at what it does, but doesn't have as rich a
featureset as the Packeteer.
John
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 04:32:25PM -0700, Micah McNelly wrote:
>
> Does anyone have any recommendations concerning hardware rate limiting
> solutions with extensive API's? I remember packeteer from back in the
> day and have been looking at some of their newer solutions that have XML
> API's. Comments? Alternatives?
>
> I would appreciate any feedback that can be provided.
>
> Thanks,
>
> /m
>
> "I bet the human brain is a kludge." - Marvin Minsky
