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".