Packet shapers are not well known outside of network administrators’ offices, but they are necessary technology from now on. Without them, colleges would face a stark choice: Pay for tremendous ...

The server room at Loyola College hums and whirs with the energy of thousands of data transactions passing through gray metal boxes and a rainbow of colored wires. John C. McFadden, the college’s ...

As a result of this discussion, I'm going to try OpenBSD as a dedicated router/firewall/bandwidth shaper. I've got a spare Pentium 100 with 32MB of ram I plan on using for the task. Ideally, I'd like ...

I looked through the FAQ and searched and didn't really find anything. When multiple people on my LAN are gaming and someone else decides to download a file through their browser, it takes over all ...