To answer my own Question - I have just found out that iproute and tc
will allow me to do this.
http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.ratelimit.single.html
I should have guessed I my Linux box would have native support for this
sort of thing. How naive of me to think otherwise;)
On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 12:15, John Moylan wrote:
> whoops, meant "'from' certain clients"
>> On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 12:13, John Moylan wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I need to throttle downloads to certain clients to 2MB's. Can anyone
> > recommend any decent traffic shaping tools to support this.
> >
> > Thanks,
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