On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Stephen Harris <lists at spuddy.org> wrote: > Sorry, no. The only consulting special code I ever used was X25-uucp > on SunOS 4.1.x Thanks anyway for replying. I lose nothing by asking every former Sun employee I run across. :)) I once built a small mini-ITX AMD x86 box mobo with riser card and one intel quad-port Ethernet card I picked up real cheap on eBay. At that time Solaris7 x86 was just released so I bought it (I still have it boxed), My plan was to use that system as a bandwidth manager and traffic shaper for my home LAN. Sun BwMGR looked like a great product (looking at the spec sheet at least ;), all I remember is the Sun guy whom mailed me the CD telling me "you´ll have to use the command line to configure it" because the ¨damn GUI¨ (sic) was coded for Java 1.x and Java 2 (at the time) had issues with it so allegedly Sun was in the process of ´re-doing it´. Go figure. In the meantime I moved and lost the install cd, so I didn´t even get a chance to try it. Anyway... I guess nowadays I could do the same with CentOS and some piece of FOSS... At the time, the only comparable product was one commercial solution for Linux and BSDs that was not only very expensive but also license-locked to the mac address of the adapter(s) used.... which was very annoying. It s been so long ago that I forgot the name... oh yes, thanks Google... ETBWMGR .... they´re still around... http://www.etinc.com/?p=69-ETBWMGR-Features Well, Sun BWMGR was comparable to that. And apparently they killed it... (then one wonders why Sun went under :-/, it wasn´t just Microsoft -and they worked hard for that). Afther Sol7 they bundled TCPIP QOS features into Solaris (I wonder if that code made it to OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana?) but I never understood if the Sol9 QOS features could do the kind of traffic shaping on its own without the cooperation of QOS aware routers on the LAN, as SunBWMGR used to do. Anyway, off-topic for this list... I know. Or not, if someone jumps in with comments about traffic shaping on CentOS.. :) FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act - George Orwell