From: "Geo." 

Without looking at it in too much depth, it looks fairly comparable in
price and capabilities to a packetshaper (looks like a nice product). It's
missing some features, got more automatic functions and has a feature I
really would love to have (the time of day thing) but other than that I'd
say price and capabilities are competitive with packetshaper. This one
seems to have a free version you can play with which might be useful for
some folks, but for a box and software to handle a 60mb subnet (100baseT)
the costs appear to be about equal with packetshaper. I see they have user
licensing (10,000 users is the max) which packetshaper doesn't.

Don't take that as a review though, I didn't spend a lot of time reading
all the details.

Also I don't agree with what they say about it being ideal for an ISP, it
appears more geared to a university type network as it's set to
automatically look for bandwidth hogs and would take just as much setup as
a packet shaper for an ISP. An ISP doesn't care about bandwidth hogs who
are paying for the bandwidth, our need is to be able to set a limit based
on how much bandwidth a customer contracts for. The packetshaper is nice
because it lets us do that and if we have spare bandwidth all customers can
use it as long as it's available. So if bob contracts for 3mb but is only
using 1mb now, everyone else has an extra 2mb to play with (if we set it
that way). It appears this can do that as well but you would have to turn
off the automatic stuff.

Geo.

"Joe Barr"  wrote in message
news:pan.2003.05.20.13.53.57.315276{at}austin.rr.com...
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/arbitrator/
>
> Have you looked at this bandwidth arbitrator for Linux?
>
> I'm curious as to how the features/prices compare to equivalent products
> in the Windows world.
>
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