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2820 or 3300V to limit bandwidth usage?

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04 Aug 2009 07:30 #56988 by scotty1000
2820 or 3300V to limit bandwidth usage? was created by scotty1000
Can anyone advise if either of the above products can do this -

We have student accomodation. Each of the 130 bedrooms has an ethernet port. We'll have two 24mb broadband connections going into the router.

We want to restrict each room's Internet access to a max speed of 512K and max monthly traffic of 10GB.

We want to do this according to MAC address but I suppose IP address would be okay.

Can either the 2820 or the 3300V do this?

thanks,
Scott

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05 Aug 2009 22:11 #57029 by runningdeere
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certainly not the 2820, and I doubt even the 3300 is capable of that (although I don't actually have experience of that)

I would think you need to be looking at enterprise class firewall devices for that sort of functionality. Check out the top end Draytek ranges, or possibly have a look at Watchguard.
You can expect to pay serious money for something like that though.

What about a PC with linux? - there's bound to be software available to do what you want.

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05 Aug 2009 23:42 #57030 by drewy

scotty1000 wrote:

We want to do this according to MAC address but I suppose IP address would be okay.


Scott



Beware that both IP addresses and MAC's can be spoofed.
If you system needs to be fool proof you may want to look at something like layer 2 switches to limit the bandwidth at the ethernet port level. However I'm unsure about the feasibility of implementing monthly limits using this type of setup.

You will probably also need some method of limiting sessions to each physical port. I can't even imagine the number of nat sessions 130 students all running torrent downloads could create. This in itself would bury a good number of routers.

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06 Aug 2009 08:41 #57031 by scotty1000
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thanks drewy, the layer 2 switch seems like the way to go

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06 Aug 2009 11:53 #57035 by paulj48
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My 2950 can limit the TX and RX speed to each client, you can also limit the number of sessions each client can use, you can also set the above with 4 different time schedules each if required.

It cannot limit the monthly donwload though, that would require differnt kit. Have a look on the Draytek US site, there are test logons for different models of router Draytek make, its worth having a play around with them.

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06 Aug 2009 13:05 #57041 by scotty1000
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went to www.draytek.com and found the 3300 will manage tx and rx on an IP basis and of course we can map IPs to mac addresses so effectively it will do it for mac add too. thanks for that paul.

we can live without managing the monthly downloads

we'll probably get the layer 2 switches too in case the 3300 gets overwhelmed doing this

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