Are you referring to the data flowing to the card or from it...?? Chances are you can only control the flow on your internal network unless you are connecting to another endpoint that you control. With TCP/IP you can only set class of service unless you are using some sort of bandwidth mgmt tool like Packeteer.
----- Original Message ---- From: Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Linux Newbies <kplug-newbie@kernel-panic.org> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 12:11:44 PM Subject: how can I throttle down eth0 I want to limit the throughput of eth0. I haven't been able to find anything using apropos. I'm not exactly sure what to search for. I am confident that there is something in Linux that can throttle the bandwidth used by my ethernet card. In about a week, I will start DSL service and I want to start off with an eth0 pipe that restricts flow to a little slower than my current dialup speed (connects at 46Kbits, but throughputs at about 38 to 40Kbits). By making eth0 even slower, I would feel the pinch even more, but not for long. Then I want to bring it up to a speed nearly the same as my dialup, long enough to feel that it is about the same. Then I want to throttle it up to about 20% faster. After I get used to that, I want to drop it back down for a bit, and then go a little faster still. And I just want to play around with that for a while. Why? I don't really know. I just want to play with it. Is there a way for me to be able to do this? -- Ralph -------------------- More difficult is to take a hard and skeptical (not cynical) look. Cynicism is easy. Discount everything. Scepticism is hard. Look carefully at it all. --Bob La Quey -- KPLUG-Newbie@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie -- KPLUG-Newbie@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
