Traffic shaping

Hi All,
We're about to be openning up an office, and since there is substantial bandwidth we'll be hosting our NS2 and backup server there, the primary servers are located at a NOC.
The big decision of the day is what to use as a router and traffic shaper. There are about four workstations and a server located there, and we'll need to prioritize between the boxes and also control the amount of bandwidth that goes out the main pipe ( ethernet to an ISP accross the hall)
Any ideas of what would be a good setup to do this? so far we've been looking at Cisco and linux htb. Our budget is about $500, however it's a bit flexible if we find something real nifty.

Regards,

Erek Dyskant
Unix Consultant

 

 

 

 

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