On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 11:06:09PM -0500, Penguin Lover Jeremy Olexa squawked: > Hello, > I am wondering how any of you limit transfer speeds on a specific > protocol. I do not need any server type applications for managing a > network, I just need a method to limit something like HTTP traffic or > SSH traffic on my box only so I don't use up our entire connection that > is shared with 4 other guys in the house. There is surprisingly little > information about doing this (that I could find).
There once was a program in portage call net-misc/trickle, I used to use it for bittorrent downloads to throttle download speeds across multiple instances. It had not been updated since 2003 and so was dropped from portage (which is a shame, since it is probably the only program of its kind). Its home page is http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Other than that, you probably would need to think about stuff like iproute2 with tcng... do a search on packages.gentoo.org for "traffic control" or "packet shaping". W -- I remember walking to school through the snow, uphill both ways, in my bare feet. Oh, now wait... never mind, that was my father. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 185 days, 20:58 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
