dummynet

[TM4525 at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/28/04 12:52:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
james at tunasafedolphin.org writes:
>>Funny, I thought that's what Dummynet did.  It seems that you wouldn't
>want to steer a user into a horribly overpriced closed-source
>rate-limiting solutuion when it's available for free in the OS.

>BTW: Nice email addr. ;)
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Ah, but its not really "available" for free, because the free ones don't work
well, aren't supported and don't scale. Plus it seems that unless you
value your time at $2./hr its already cost you more than the $800. to try to 
use the "free" stuff. Are you planning on completely rewriting it yourself
using dummynet as the code base? What good is open source if
the entire code base is nowhere near as good as what you can buy?
You would really struggle with an inadequate open source solution 
rather than pay for something that works?

And I wouldn't talk about email addresses, mr "so liberal I can't function
normally in society". AOL buffers the 99% of mails I have no interest in 
reading, I can just block the domains of lists I dont feel like dealing
with at any given time without having to unsubscribe and subscribe,
and it uses no disk space or bandwidth in the process. Its ideal (except 
for the darned reader). 


TM