Packetshaper Replacement

Fri Oct 23 14:48:57 UTC 1998

Hello,

I'm curious if anyone knows of any good alternatives to shape bandwidth
logically other than the packeteer.  We're having persistent problems
with slow bandwidth, including bandwidth outside any policy limitations,
and for some reason it keeps kicking into safe mode as well.  Ironically
they were having the same problems on the interop demos =).  

I'm going to be taking a look at Foundry's Server-Iron which is a L4
switch, but it may not do what we need it to do.  Bay networks makes some
nice switches that are capable of bandwidth shaping, but only per physical
port.  Our basic needs are a unit that will shape logically, keep
statistics, and all the general bells and whistles that one would need to
maintain a shaped, shared-colo network.

Thank you,

Jonathan A. Zdziarski
Senior Systems Administrator
Netrail, inc. 
888.NET.RAIL x240