on Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:53:48AM -0800, R. Douglas Barbieri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have a question that I need to ask in terms of an analogy, since true > network tweaking is still something of a mystery to me (okay, okay, it > betrays my ignorance in these matters...:-) ). > > When dealing with processor usage, you can "renice" a process and make it > have a lower priority so it doesn't hog the CPU, and your system will > "chunk" less. So is there a way to do something like this with a network > connection? > > Since I have ADSL, it sucks whenever I want to upload a big file and my > Internet connection is knocked to its knees. It would be great to be able > to say "this outgoing tcp connection to foo.com gets only 1% of the > bandwidth" or something like that. Am I making any sense?
You can implement QoS or bandwidth throttling using firewall / ip filter rules. Note too that wget and rsync both offer application-space bandwidth limiting as well. So you can requests, say, a 10Mb/s rate cap on some transfer. RTFM for more information. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? The truth behind the H-1B indentured servant scam: http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/itaa.real.html http://www.zazona.com/ShameH1B/ _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
