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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