Subject: Re: Is easy rate-limiting available?
To: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/02/2002 16:13:23
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Paul Hoffman wrote:

> At 3:14 PM +0000 1/2/02, David Brownlee wrote:
> >On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> >
> >>  I have two NetBSD boxes talking over Ethernet. Is there an easy way
> >>  for me to configure one or both of them so that the traffic that goes
> >>  between them moves at a known slow pace (like about 150 Kb/sec)? I
> >>  don't want to rate-limit any other parts of either system, and I
> >>  can't easily put an extra box between the two of them.
> >
> >	On the remote chance its for web traffic you can use thttpd
> >	which has an optional 'throttle' for traffic speed.
>
> Thanks for the interesting pointer (god I love pkgsrc!), but my need
> is for FTP between the two boxes.

	That is even easier - see rateget in ftpd.conf :)

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