> That's funny, I told Packeteer the same thing, the Packetshaper costs
>way too much. They returned with a comment that they were looking at a
>lower end unit, but that thing is already only a dual 10BastT unit with
>pretty basic functionality. Considering that you can take an old system
>that's going out of service, like a P75 or some such thing, load Linux
>and some bandwidth limiting software on it and have the same thing as a
>Packetshaper that can also do other services (like routing, seconday DNS
>or something), why would you spend the 7K for the Packetshaper? for $2000
>you can do the same thing with a faster machine and stick a T-1 card
>right in it.
The problem is that the Linux traffic shaping code is in alpha, and it
is not very scalable. The notes say it is useful from 9 K/sec to
128K/sec, beyond that it is very blocky and choppy. I don't know if
BSD's code is any better. However for 2-3K you can do it several ways.
7K is certainly way too much.