Sorry for the off topic post, but I cant think of anywhere else to ask about this. I have googled and failed to find any valid answers.
I understand the principle of 95th percentile for bandwidth charging, but I dont get how it is monitored.
Our bandwidth is provided through a Summit48 switch / router. We get given 1MB/s bursting to 2MB/s.
Is this achieved by configuring our port on the switch/router to have a max speed of 2MB/s ? then querying the switch/router every 5 minutes for the current throughput ?
I am just interested really - I dont have any experience with high end switches like the Summit. - Is it even possible to set a max bandiwdth on the switch's ports ?
If I am off the mark here, can anyone point me at any info explaining how it is implemented.
One example is found in the package 'wondershaper', part of SuSE Linux >= 9.1
See the manual or /usr/share/docs/packages/wondershaper for more info (no need to install this package if you browse it with mc).
I don't know if this is something for professional use.
This is a slightly different subject area.... Wondershaper is for QoS (from my understanding). A search through the files doesnt mention 95th percentile. Anyone else got any experience of this ? Whitey