Subject: Re: Cool feature: FTP rate throttling
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Oliver Frick <ofrick@ofrick.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/16/2002 15:54:41
> An administrator can add an entry to /etc/ftpd.conf like:
> rateput guest 5k
> which will throttle uploads to the server by users in the `guest'
> class (usually anonymous ftp) to 5 KB/s. `rateget' exists for
> download limits.
>
> A remote user can request a specific rate (e.g, if their ftp client
> doesn't support this) with:
> site rateput 5k
>
> This feature has existing in NetBSD ftp servers since NetBSD 1.5.
this feature seems not to work on my i386 NetBSD 1.5.2
Does somebody use it and will it work?
Oliver