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From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To: Tsu-Fan Cheng <tfcheng@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: limit bandwidth on sftp
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Tsu-Fan Cheng <tfcheng@gmail.com> writes:

>    I need to limit my sftp session bandwidth to 20K, can someone show me how
> to do it? thank you!

There's no simple way to do that.  

scp has such a capability, though; maybe using that is your easiest option?

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Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
		http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/