Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 13:26:44 -0500 From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Limiting bandwidth on a socket? (SO_RCVBUF?) Message-ID: <199611061826.NAA22804@etinc.com>
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>> > I'm trying to come up with some way to limit the amount of bandwidth on a >> > socket, so I can have my mail and large files retrieve without slowing >> > down a telnet session that much. >> > >... >> > >> > I could swear I saw a "low-bandwidth ncftp" or something of the sort on >> > sunsite.unc.edu a couple years ago, so I think this is possible (Well, at >> > least in Linux...). It's apparently been deleted though. > >Some ftp sites (e.g. funic.funet.fi) tell you the amount of bandwidth >that has been allocated to your ftp connection. Try to look at what >kind of ftp server they use. They're not real...Linux has what they call a "shaper", but its almost totally bogus. Calling anything that you are talking about a "bandwidth limiter" is inaccurate anyway.......its really a throughput limiter....the bandwidth is always the same.... Dennis
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