Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:53:10 +0200 From: Ghirai <ghirai@ghirai.com> To: Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk> Cc: Dan Naumov <dan.naumov@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sftp server with speed throttling Message-ID: <20100322135310.93d206ce.ghirai@ghirai.com> In-Reply-To: <4BA67994.1000506@unsane.co.uk> References: <cf9b1ee01003210653l668377b7lc9002ebc68ff063d@mail.gmail.com> <4BA67994.1000506@unsane.co.uk>
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On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:55:00 +0000 Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk> wrote: > On 21/03/2010 13:53, Dan Naumov wrote: > > What are my options if I want to run an sftp server with speed > > throttling? My understanding is that openssh (which includes sftp) > > in base does not support this directly, so I would have to either > > use a custom kernel with ALTQ (and I would really rather stick to > > GENERIC so I can use freebsd-update) which sounds like a bit too > > much configuration work or pass sftp traffic through PF and > > throttle it (ugly, would also affect ssh traffic). > > > > Are there any sftp servers with directly built-in functionality for > > this? I just would to be able to set limits for upload speed > > globally for the entire server and preferably to also be able to do > > speed settings on a per-user basis. > > > A quick google indicates there are at least 2 sftp servers with this > functionality, > http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_sftp.html > http://mysecureshell.sourceforge.net/en/index.html > > Proftpd with mod_sftp needs the proftp-devel port so I'm guessing its > still in testing but at least its in ports. > No idea about the mysecureshell program, its not in ports. > > I havent actually tried with of these so no idea how well they work, > good luck. > I used pure-ftpd, and it's pretty awesome. http://www.pureftpd.org/project/pure-ftpd
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