Matthew Toseland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
 
> On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 10:06:04PM +0200, Evert Meulie wrote:
> > Hi all!
> > 
> > Has anyone been able to accurately shape the bandwidth consumption of 
> > freenet traffic leaving your server? I know there are options in 
> > freenet.conf, but it seems that these are either ignored totally or at 
> > the very least not very strictly abided by...
> 
> Really? Last time I tested it, outputBytes seemed to work okay. You
> _did_ set it in bytes per second, correct? And to what level are you
> trying to limit it?

In my experience on various computers outputBandwidthLimit does work, but tends
to consistently overshoot by a few KiB. This could cause problems if you've been
generous expecting it to be a hard ceiling limit ... try reducing it a bit.

> > Since Freenet uses random ports for outgoing traffic, I can't really 
> > shape it on my firewall either. (I do have an option to shape traffic 
> > based on packet content. Do all Freenet packages have some common, 
> > unique content perhaps?)
> 
> They shouldn't. Sadly they do at the moment (well not individual
> packets, but connections), but they won't in future.
> > 
> > The Freenet site suggested to control the bandwidth usage on the 
> > OS-level instead. Who can tell me how to do this?

The freenethelp Wiki is very useful, but isn't official project documentation :)
It should be possible to traffic-shape incoming traffic at least with a blanket
"all incoming tcp to port whatever-your-listenPort-is" rule if you really want
to, but any gains are likely to be minimal IMO (possibly slightly less CPU usage
due to the kernel doing some of the limiting.)

Bob


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