I have a project that will require me to ensure that all hosts have a chance at the available bandwidth. I suppose this implies that hosts with large bandwidth usage will have to be throttled back to allow other hosts access.
I plan to be using a Cisco router with IP/Firewall IOS. I have some Cisco experience, but none with QoS. I've looked at most of the QoS protocols and since I don't need to prioritize/classify traffic, just equally distribute bandwidth among all hosts, I'm looking at WFQ. Does anyone have any better ideas? Any problems with WFQ? I don't want to implement WFQ and have one or a small number of hosts consuming all of the bandwidth.
I also thought about configuring a Committed Access Rate, but it's interface and Access list based, not for every host.
I've also noticed that the QoS configuration samples on Cisco's web site are for serial interfaces. WFQ does work on Ethernet interfaces, right?
Thanks in advance,
Jack
I plan to be using a Cisco router with IP/Firewall IOS. I have some Cisco experience, but none with QoS. I've looked at most of the QoS protocols and since I don't need to prioritize/classify traffic, just equally distribute bandwidth among all hosts, I'm looking at WFQ. Does anyone have any better ideas? Any problems with WFQ? I don't want to implement WFQ and have one or a small number of hosts consuming all of the bandwidth.
I also thought about configuring a Committed Access Rate, but it's interface and Access list based, not for every host.
I've also noticed that the QoS configuration samples on Cisco's web site are for serial interfaces. WFQ does work on Ethernet interfaces, right?
Thanks in advance,
Jack
