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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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> 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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> W |
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Thanks for the replies all. I think I will try our trickle, it sounds |
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like it is what I want. I could learn packet shaping and whatnot but I |
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don't need that level of control. |
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Jeremy Olexa |
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(olexa@××××××.edu) |
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Office: EE/CS 1-201 |
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CS/IT Systems Staff |
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University of Minnesota |
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