On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 15:16, Paul Millar wrote: Hi, Iptables supports this natively. You need kernel 2.4 and you need to have said yes to experimental stuff and yes to iptables support, ip bandwidth throttling, and some other networking options in the networkin g section. Have a look at the netfilter/iptables howtos and websites.
HTH D > Hi, > > There's a kernel option called "Traffic shaper" that, if memory serves, > does just that. > > HTH > > Paul. > > On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Jamie MacIsaac wrote: > > Unusual request here. I'm trying to simulate low bandwidth conditions > > for a product we're testing. However, the slowest connection I can play > > with right now is a 10Mb segment on the LAN, which I can't really > > describe as low bandwidth. > > > > Does anyone now if it's possible to 'throttle' the LAN adapter > > connection speed on my RedHat 7.2 laptop to simulate a 64Kb - 256Kb > > link? > > > > Thanks, > > jMi. > > > > -- > > Mr. Jamie M. MacIsaac tel: +44 0 141 229 1414 > > Systems Administrator smtp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > CC Technology Limited http://www.cctech.co.uk > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk > > http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Paul Millar yo-yo, n. : > Particle Physics Theory Group Something that is occasionally > Department of Physics and Astronomy up but normally down. > University of Glasgow, (see also Computer) > Glasgow G12 8QQ, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Scotland +44 (0)141 330 4717 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk > http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
