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Hi! Hoping to find out what the best practice is for this situation:<br />
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We're getting a 100mbps link from our ISP and would like to split it between three routers servicing their respective LANs.<br />
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Router1 should be able to use up to 70mbps<br />
Router2 should be able to use up to 20mbps<br />
Router3 should be able to use up to 10mbps<br />
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Our initial thought is to use a managed switch like a HP 9304M or Cisco Catalyst and rate-limit the ports. &nbsp;<br />
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However while rate-limiting (i think it's called policing on the Cisco side) works both inbound/outbound, it seems to simply drop packets after the rate limit is hit, which seems to be really bad for traffic like voip or videoconferencing.<br />
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On the Cisco side traffic-shaping looks to be the better solution, but it only works outbound?<br />
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We're thus looking at using the Adaptive Rate Limiting feature on the HP switch which apparently will still drop packets once the rate limit is reached, but we can specify certain traffic like SIP to be able to pass through unmolested. &nbsp;<br />
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Is this the best solution for this case, or is there a better way to do this (with different hardware perhaps)?
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Hi! Hoping to find out what the best practice is for this situation:

We're getting a 100mbps link from our ISP and would like to split it between three routers servicing their respective LANs.

Router1 should be able to use up to 70mbps
Router2 should be able to use up to 20mbps
Router3 should be able to use up to 10mbps

Our initial thought is to use a managed switch like a HP 9304M or Cisco Catalyst and rate-limit the ports.  

However while rate-limiting (i think it's called policing on the Cisco side) works both inbound/outbound, it seems to simply drop packets after the rate limit is hit, which seems to be really bad for traffic like voip or videoconferencing.

On the Cisco side traffic-shaping looks to be the better solution, but it only works outbound?

We're thus looking at using the Adaptive Rate Limiting feature on the HP switch which apparently will still drop packets once the rate limit is reached, but we can specify certain traffic like SIP to be able to pass through unmolested.  

Is this the best solution for this case, or is there a better way to do this (with different hardware perhaps)?

Dividing ISP bandwidth using traffic policing/shaping

Networking hardware includes the physical devices facilitating the use of a computer network. Typically, networking hardware includes gateways, routers, network bridges, modems, wireless access points, networking cables, line drivers, switches, hubs, and repeaters. But it also includes hybrid network devices such as multilayer switches, protocol converters, bridge routers, proxy servers, firewalls, network address translators, multiplexers, network interface controllers, wireless network interface controllers, ISDN terminal adapters and other related hardware.

Networking Hardware-Other

A switch is a device that filters and forwards packets of data between LAN segments. Switches operate at the data link layer or the network layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model and therefore support any packet protocol. LANs that use switches to join segments are called switched LANs or, in the case of Ethernet networks, switched Ethernet LANs. A hub is a connection point for devices in a network. Hubs are commonly used to connect segments of a LAN. A hub contains multiple ports; when a packet arrives at one port, it is copied to the other ports so that all segments of the LAN can see all packets.

Switches / Hubs

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