Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:28:44 -0500 From: Brian McCann <bjmccann@gmail.com> To: brianjohn@fusemail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can I set priorities for file transfers Message-ID: <2b5f066d05011806287d4ccfbc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3659.209.87.176.132.1106058238.fusewebmail-19592@www.fusemail.com> References: <3659.209.87.176.132.1106058238.fusewebmail-19592@www.fusemail.com>
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Look into dummynet and ipfw....you can essentially use them to limit bandwidth on certain ports and/or ip addresses. I did something similar once before, but to my entire machine...worked fairly well. --Brian On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 08:23:58 -0600 (CST), Brian John <brianjohn@fusemail.com> wrote: > Hello, > I have (I think) kind of a unique question. I leave my home computer on > all day and transfer and share files via a P2P application. However, > sometimes I like to ssh in from work and transfer files between my work PC > and my home PC via scp. Right now it is really slow because it is > transferring so much with the P2P apps, that it uses up all of my > bandwidth. Is there any way that I can put a priority on this so that it > gives me the majority of my bandwidth when I want to use scp? > > Thanks > > /Brian > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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