Forgot... There's also the 'shaper' package (not sure what it's called under other than Debian). It uses the cbq rate limiting facility in the 2.4.x kernel.. It's a bit of a dog to configure though.
I use it on our firewall at work to effect 'sorta' QOS for our frame relay network traffic to ensure things don't grind to a halt when someone pulls a 10Mb email across a 512k link. Similar problem to yours really, but no proxy, it works at an IP traffic level. But if you're keen for a bit of pain google will no doubt have oodles info available.. Cheers, Me. On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 17:19, Phill Coxon wrote: > I haven't had any experience with proxy servers before. > > I'm on a network with 5 others using a 128k DSL connection and when > those pesky windows users (Grrr) start downloading the gigantic windows > updates they suck up our entire bandwitdh for ages. > > Anyone know if there is an easy way to set up an http proxy server that > limits the transfer rate of downloads - for example, to 50% of the > available bandwidth? > > Thanks.
