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Throttling back bandwidth

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by wiredlessmvp

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We have a 10/100 device attached to a fiber media converter on the network and a firewall on the client side. I want to throttle the connectivity to a particular workgroup down to x, with x being some speed less than 10Mb but greater than T1. Whattools, software or equipment would allow me to accomplish this?

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by astute

One way is to use Traffic Shapping option provided by some firewalls ( I had used NetScreen-100). Just add a rule for inbound or outbound and use the traffic shapping option.

The other option is to buy a device like packeteer - www.packeteer.com (which i guess is very expensive and does more then just traffic shapping)

Good luck

by assamite

If you are not too concerned on cost then I would suggest try Checkpoint Firewall 1 with Flood Gate installed. Good package and a little fiddly sometimes but otherwise top notch.

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