Ok, very new and whilst looking I know this is possible but not sure what the best solution is.
Here’s the scenario:
We have a client that works in a building with 2 other companies. We are providing a leased line to this building that is being shared by all 3 companies. Each company needs to have bandwidth management so one doesn’t swamp the line for the others. The line is presented as ethernet at BT’s NTE. The line has 5 useable IP’s.
The plan was originally to take the line, into a 5 port switch which goes off to 3 separate ethernet routers using their own IP’s. The other 2 companies want to keep their current equipment rather than use our provided which would have handled the bandwidth management. So we need to present a WAN ethernet to them with no NATing.
Now at this point we still need to manage the bandwidth for each company. I was planning to use a managed 5 or 8 port switch in place of the current 5port but am unable to find one that clearly does what is needed, IE manage the bandwidth/rate on each physical port. This seems to keep things the simplest possible for both parties.
I was looking at an RB260gs (but this wiki makes me doubt whether I can specifically control up and down to their own limits http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/SwOS#ACL_Tab). I simply need to say port 2, 3 and 4 has a maximum 30mbps down and 10mbps up.
What would be the best hardware to go for and how would you limit it?
Again, must stress whilst I understand the concept of RouterBoard and RouterOS, i am completely new to this!
