Use Vyatta to Limit Guest Network Bandwidth
Friday, 28 October 2011 19:48 | 
Written by Tony | 
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A problem many of us have in our offices or our homes is the need to have Guest access to our network but not hog all the bandwidth. What I did here is use Vyatta Quality of Service (QoS) settings to limit the bandwidth on a guest network through a traffic shaping policy. You can add other QoS rules like prioritizing VIOP if you wish but as that is more complex, I'm not covering it in this article, I'm just focusing on all bandwidth.
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