rate limiting bandwidth

Wed Sep 14 01:14:03 UTC 2005

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
> 
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