BANDWIDTH CONTROL SYSTEM

摘要

A bandwidth control system for a network, the network having a host computer that includes a first interface and a second interface. A packet driver (108 ) adapted to be executed on the host computer is logically connected to the first network interface and the second interface. A traffic shaper (107) adapted to be executed on the host computer maintains a topology representation including one or more nodes. The traffic shaper performs priority and packet rate metering functions on the captured packets to match a set of rate conditions unique to each node in the topology representation of the network.