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Date:      Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:02:53 +0000
From:      RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: globally limit fetch download?
Message-ID:  <20090219210253.3f288b8c@gumby.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090219211229.Y47625@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
References:  <499DBA8F.8090300@poughkeepsieschools.org> <20090219211229.Y47625@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>

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On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:12:48 +0100 (CET)
Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:

> > I have several FreeBSD machines located at different sites on very
> > slow DSL lines.
> >
> > Is there a way that I can limit the bandwidth that fetch uses when
> > it fetches ports?
> you may do this and 1000 times more things using IPFirewall

It's not a very efficient way to do it when the firewall is downstream
of the bottleneck - it's also difficult to make it specific to port
downloads. 

I'd go with wget. It's also good at handling unreliable lines, I used
to use it when I was on dial-up




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