Yes, a way to limit the amount of bandwidth used by Freenet is probably a good idea, I suggest you reccomend it to Freenet-dev.
Ian. > One issue that I haven't seen addressed anywhere is the capacity -- > or lack thereof -- for the person running a server to specify an > approximate amount of bandwidth that they're willing to allow. I've > seen complaints from people running other distributed servers > (Napster, etc.) that all their bandwidth gets chewed up by incoming > requests/transfers, and that they have no control over that. > > I realize that many aspects of Freenet (file propagation, etc) will > tend to make frequently-requested files more widely spread, reducing > average bandwidth requirements. What I'm looking for -- and what I > think many people would appreciate -- is a way to throttle the *peak* > bandwidth used. > > Obviously, the server can't prevent bandwidth caused by incoming > requests, but it ought to be able to control how it sends responses & > transfers files. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20000410/80792f88/attachment.html>
