-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 > > 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
Thanks for the replies all. I think I will try our trickle, it sounds like it is what I want. I could learn packet shaping and whatnot but I don't need that level of control. - -- Jeremy Olexa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Office: EE/CS 1-201 CS/IT Systems Staff University of Minnesota -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD4DBQFEbMN/FN7pD9kMi/URAjrjAJ41ws7vUdorNIJNuHHqujvWfQ94JgCVF3OT GnCH0oq4gLd3MpYXdmjA2A== =VSl4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
