Need Help With Network Switch

[michael]

I have a Netgear GSM7224 L2 Managed Switch and need to control the speed of a few of the ports. Throttling is what I've heard it called before (I thought it meant something else, but I digress).
I found where I can set the port speed from 10full or half, 100 full or half and 1000 full or half.
That is not what I want, I want to set the speed of say port 07 to only have 100k of bandwith and port 03 set to only have available 10k of bandwith and the rest will have the full available.

Make sense? If so, good, how would I set this up?
I can't find it anywhere and I know that this can be done, HELP! ! !

[FishStalker]

By slowing the speed of the port, you ARE throttling the bandwidth. Slower port speed effectively throttles that port's impact on the switch backplane.

Think about it this way. I have a squirt gun and you have a fire hose. The amount of water I can squirt at you is different than the amount of water you can squirt at me in a given time period (bandwidth) because our data speeds are different (port speed).

[FishStalker]

I think you need the manual. After looking into this switch, it looks like it can do traffic shaping and bandwidth management to provide QoS support.
NETGEAR GSM7224 ProSafe 24 Port Gigabit L2 Managed Switch

[michael]

Originally Posted by FishStalker

...After looking into this switch, it looks like it can do traffic shaping and bandwidth management to provide QoS support.

I looked into that already and that would just give priority to one port over another.
I read the manual and didn't find anything about bandwidth management.
Also I understand about the 10/100/1000 port speed and throughput but what I'm looking for is to slow down a port past 10M, more like I want the port to run at 100k.

What I'm trying to set up is a test scenario and I need one port at 100kbs.

[FishWiz]

You can't specifically state the exact bandwidth you want on each port with a switch. Most can only prioritize. What you are trying to do is Packet Shaping, which can do rate limiting. But even that is done by IP or Classification (service/port).

[michael]

So simply put, I can't specify at speed. Are there any programs out there that I could run on the machine that would allow me to do that?

[crazetuna]

Try Cisco, Brocade, Qlogic or McData switches.

[Lil Ceez]

Is this post in english?

Im sorry, I dont speak nerd.


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Lil ceez

[jscrib]

Originally Posted by Lil Ceez

Is this post in english?

Im sorry, I dont speak nerd.


Holla

Lil ceez

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[http404]

You'll have to spend a good chunk of change to get an off the shelf switch that can do traffic shaping.

When I worked for an ISP we used Microtik router boards to perform traffic shaping. Inexpensive and bullet proof solution to manage traffic on the network. You can shape traffic based on IP, MAC address, Ports, subnet, firewall mark, protocol, etc.


Put this MikroTik Routers and Wireless on one of these Routerboard.com and you're good as gold.

PM me if you have any questions.

[speedgoat]

Why do I keep clicking on this post and reading the responses? I don't understand anything that's been said so far. Habit?