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On Wed, 17 May 2006 00:45:16 -0400 |
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Willie Wong wrote: |
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> On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 11:06:09PM -0500, Penguin Lover Jeremy Olexa squawked: |
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> > Hello, |
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> > I am wondering how any of you limit transfer speeds on a specific |
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> > protocol. I do not need any server type applications for managing a |
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> > network, I just need a method to limit something like HTTP traffic or |
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> > SSH traffic on my box only so I don't use up our entire connection that |
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> > is shared with 4 other guys in the house. There is surprisingly little |
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> > information about doing this (that I could find). |
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> There once was a program in portage call net-misc/trickle, I used to use it |
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> for bittorrent downloads to throttle download speeds across multiple |
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> instances. It had not been updated since 2003 and so was dropped from |
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> portage (which is a shame, since it is probably the only program of |
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> its kind). Its home page is |
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> http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle |
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That is a shame! |
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> Other than that, you probably would need to think about stuff like |
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> iproute2 with tcng... do a search on packages.gentoo.org for "traffic |
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> control" or "packet shaping". |
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some programs have rate limiting built in. You mentioned http traffic - |
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if you are downloading large files you can use |
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wget --limit-rate=10k http://big.server/large/file/you.want |
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Hard to see how you would max out a connection with ssh unless you are |
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transferring files via scp. This too has a rate limiter |
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-l limit |
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Limits the used bandwidth, specified in Kbit/s. |
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(I didn't know that until i just looked it up!) |
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