Cheers for the info... I've just got a clark connect box up and running which has hbt built in.
it seems to work well and be fairly easy to configure using the cc admin tool I'm still to muck about with vpn on it thou. Cheers Don On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 23:25, Ross Drummond wrote: > Some time ago there was a question on forum this about bandwidth management. > > The questioner wanted to know if there was some tool or method to manage > banwidth dynamically. > > For example a ftp download would would grab all available bandwith if it was > the only application using the network, but throttle back gracefully to allow > other applications access to the bandwidth if required. > > No satisfactory solution was suggested. > > Now there is trickle. > > "As with any finite resource, it is often necessary to apply policies to the > shared usage of network resources. Existing solutions typically implement > this by employing traffic management in edge routers. However, users > of smaller networks regularly find themselves in need of nothing more than > ad-hoc rate rate limiting. Furthermore, the networks in question are > typically unmanaged, with no network administrator(s) to manage > complicated traffic management schemes. > > Trickle fills this gap by providing a simple and portable solution to > rate limit the TCP connections of a given process or group of processes." > > Go to; > > http://www.monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle > > I have not used this application myself. > > Cheers Ross Drummmond -- Don Gould
