Many applications do their own bwlimiting nowadays, why not fred too. Until easier OS support is present (policing/shaping is good in linux but hadly trivial, bwlimiting on windows.. who has ever heard about such a feature?) I think that it is good to have this feature present in fred.
/N ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 12:47 AM Subject: Re: [freenet-dev] Bandwidth Limiting is a mess > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 04:57:25PM -0400, John Belmonte wrote: > > Likely I'm missing something, but why not remove all bandwidth limiting > > from freenet? Let specialized utilities like trickle on Linux take up > > the slack. Reduce the complexity of your code and concentrate on more > > important things. If no solution is available on some platform, that is > > an itch that will get scratched quickly enough. > > Doing this outside Freenet leads to the same problem that we have with > the current mechanism (while creating more work for installer authors). > > Ian. > > -- > Ian Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Coordinator, The Freenet Project http://freenetproject.org/ > Weblog http://slashdot.org/~sanity/journal > _______________________________________________ > devl mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
