On Wed, 17 May 2006 00:45:16 -0400 Willie Wong wrote: > 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
That is a shame! > > 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". > some programs have rate limiting built in. You mentioned http traffic - if you are downloading large files you can use wget --limit-rate=10k http://big.server/large/file/you.want Hard to see how you would max out a connection with ssh unless you are transferring files via scp. This too has a rate limiter -l limit Limits the used bandwidth, specified in Kbit/s. (I didn't know that until i just looked it up!) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
