alternatives to throttling to slow gnutella should you need them for whatever reason:
much of the bandwidth on gnutella is taken up by forwarding searches to other hosts and back. If the number of hosts available for querying per user on your network is 1000 (typical in gnutella), you can reduce the number of queries through your connection from 12,000 (peak) to 1000 by constraining it to one box. If you consolidate the p2p onto a central mp3 server with a web interface to the p2p apps, perhaps you can futz with the MTU on a single interface on that box (or otherwise hobble it), which is bound to the p2p processes. A second interface can provide file sharing access to the lan. This can both reduce the query overhead and ensure that downloads to that machine don't clog up the gateway. I would also suggest a proxy with a perilously low thread priority on the p2p ports, but that's a game of whack-a-mole where nobody wins. this is all more work than editing a config file or two, that's for sure...but I thought I'd throw them out there for the taking. tack On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Lorin wrote: > John: I have a network with about 12 users that is sharing one 1.5Mb DSL > connection. What I'm trying to do is to limit the amount of bandwith that > the computers that are always connected to gnutella can use, so that the > rest of us can at least browse the web. _______________________________________________ Bits mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits
