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 02:47:10
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 04:37:02PM +0100, Oliver Frick wrote:
| > What does using
| > ftp -d somehost
| > return after you've logged in and tried to use the rate limiting
| > functionality?
| >
| > Luke.
| >
|
| well, i do:
| ftp> quote site rateput 1024
| ---> site rateput 1024
| 200 RATEPUT set to 1024 bytes/sec
|
| but a transfer still will use the full bandwidth instead of 1024 bytes per
| second.
Rate limiting is generally more effective from the sender's side, so
in your case, try something like "rate put 1k".