Throttle Bandwidth

[RadioX]

Can I throttle bandwidth on a point to point connection with a Cisco 3640. If so how?

Thanks for your help
Ron

 

[xpto]

In a serial interface you can adjust the clock rate to some predefined values, and so you are in fact changing the bandwith of the link.

Beware of the "bandwith" command, which is only for informational purposes only, for example, when you are apllying service-policies to an interface.

Hope this is helps you.

 

[jeter]

Why would you want to throttle down? Jeter@LasVegas.com
J.Fisher CCNA

 

[RadioX]

I want to throttle down cause we are providing select people with internet access and some of them want less than a t1 but it is easier for me to order a point to point t1 loop instead of go with frame relay that way if they cancel out I can use the loop to hook up another t1 at my facility or provide a full t1 to someone else or what not.

Ron

 

[writemem]

you can order anything from 256k up to full T. Regardless of the bandwidth the RBOC (Regional Bell Operating Company)will bring the local loop into the premise as a T-1. For instance order a 512k Point-to-Point circuit and you'll get a t-1 local loop that only has the first 8 channels provisioned. You then configure you csu/dsu to use the first eight channel's assign them to the c/d's serial port and interface to your router. Now when they cancel or finally realize as all people do that they don't have enough bandwidth you put a order into your provided for anoth X amount of channels this will increase the bandwidth by 64k per channel. Not sure how well the throttling bandwidth will work if you order a T why not use a T. check out a larscom split-t csu/dsu it will allow you to assign x-channels to port one and the rest to port two and stay in sync. hope i didn't confuse you the moral here is make your life easy and order what you actually need

 

[nak2472]

hi there am new to this site and a non techie (please bear with me) am currently working with my technical team who have developed a software (PC, Linux) that successfully manages bandwidth based on users IP address and status. i was wondering what the demand for something like this is and if it could be used anywhere besides with ISP's. nak

 

[writemem]

nak It would be nice if i could limit certain users download bandwidth. My company has production systems that connect using the internet as well as regular users surfing the web. It would be cool to say limit mp3 downloads to no greater than 56k yet allow my production systems full access. sounds like a cool piece of code did your guys write it themselves or did you purchase it?

 

[bythespy]

If you can afford the T-1, why would the user want less or does management want less in terms of cost?

I think writemem is on the write track if you must do some form of throttle back.

I am in the beginning stages of installing a Cisco AVVID solution, so my hands on experience is still at the Novice level. We have a lot planned and I am told it will all work.

This might be an option:

I have not implemented this yet, but I was talking to a CCIE about using Low Latency Queuing(spelling error?) to limit the bandwith available to specific applications. In my case I have AS400 traffic that I want to have priority over internet browsing and other traffic. Not sure if it will work for you, not real sure it is going to work for me, but it is another option.

 

[nak2472]

hi there, yes the code was written by my team and is at testing stage with them. we are company in uk and sticking to the code of ethic here i wont make a sales pitch (am not good at sales anyway)........but, we are testing it with ISP's and Network service providers and streaming companies like yourself were on our list as well....to test what it can do. i will put some technical details here when i have something concise from my team. but i can say that pepsi is testing it for its worldwide intranet and pretty pleased with it (all names mentioned belong to their respected companies etc etc). what they have assured me is that there is not commercial sw package out there that would do this, only thing available is hardware solution.....so it sounds exciting. more later.........nak

 

[his2use]

Nak,
We are looking for that kind of solution too. I am working on Cisco Certification, But it will be some time before I can do this.

Tell me more!