Re: [ILUG] traffic shaping

From: Niall (niall at domain magicgoeshere.com)
Date: Tue 09 May 2000 - 14:58:19 IST


On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 11:36:55AM +0100, John P. Looney wrote:

> How hard would it be to set something up to limit any FTP connections
> that I make from my desktop to a max of 4kb/sec or something ?
>
> I like making use of mirrors, but when I do, it floods our poor little
> leased line - so something to throttle it would be good..

According to the Linux shaper docs. you can only do this at the transmitting
end or at a local router - the Linux traffic shaper can only restrict
transmitted traffic.

Regards,

Niall

P.S. You could just put the arm on Barry to buy a bigger line :-)



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