Re: [bwm-tools-tech] Feature

[Nigel K. <nk...@lb...>]

Hi Shannan,

> I have been researching similar products to find alternatives, so i
> can convince my CIO that the running BWM box i have will do everything
> they want it to.=20

Great ... are you still having problems with the segfaulting? Sorry I
didn't get back to you, had a bit of a crisis in one of our datacenters
and had to get it sorted out.


> He is very keen on getting a Packeteer hardware appliance. The only
> thing it does that BWM-Tools doesn't mention is a feature called link
> acceleration.=20

This appears to be clever packet mangling/tinkering. Packeteer looks
like it plays with the packets and adjusts them on the fly to get better
throughput. Its something I've been thinking about but haven't had the
time to mess around with.


>=20
> Is this possible or is it included and just called something
> different?=20

At present BWM Tools doesn't mangle anything inside packets.

>=20
> Also there are staff here that will need to modify the config but have
> no xml or linux experience. Is there a web GUI available?

No gui available as part of the official bwm tools package, I'm not sure
if anyone has developed one though?

The XML layout is pretty easy and shouldn't be hard to write a web GUI.


>  If not that's ok we have in house web developers that could do one up
> (and i could release to the BWM community) that could do the job. I
> just thought i would check before we re-invented the wheel.=20

This would be GREAT!


Regards
Nigel