On Thu, 12 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Perhaps this Mailing-List is not the right place to ask that but
> anyway....
>
> I have got an Internet connection with 64kbit limited bandwith.
>
> On my server here I�m running a X-NET Node with some AXIP
> Links over the Internet.
>
> Everytime when I�m downloading a file via FTP the AXIP
> connections slow down and sometimes x-net even discs the links
> because of the retries.
>
> So my question, is there a process - managaer or sg. like that out,
> which enables me to limit all FTP connections to a maximum of
> 3kbit/s for example?
This is a perfect case for traffic shaping, which the newer kernels have.
Unfortunately, you need to shape the traffic at the other side of your
Internet connection, as it's the inbound connection that's congested, not
the outbound.
You might be able to do something with a FTP client that meters bandwidth
by adjusting the TCP sliding window, but I don't know of any such beast.
Do a Control-Z of the ftp process every so often could do the same thing
manually.
Bob N2KGO
