Subject: Re: Cool feature: FTP rate throttling
To: Oliver Frick <ofrick@ofrick.com>
From: Luke Mewburn <lukem@wasabisystems.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/17/2002 02:00:08
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 03:54:41PM +0100, Oliver Frick wrote:
  | > 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?

What does using
	ftp -d somehost
return after you've logged in and tried to use the rate limiting
functionality?

Luke.