From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 6 10:34:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA00378 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 10:34:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA00343 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 10:34:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw-fr1.etinc.com [204.141.244.98]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id KAA14022 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 10:25:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from ntws (ntws.etinc.com [204.141.95.142]) by etinc.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA22804; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 13:26:44 -0500 Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 13:26:44 -0500 Message-Id: <199611061826.NAA22804@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Luigi Rizzo From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Subject: Re: Limiting bandwidth on a socket? (SO_RCVBUF?) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> > 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