Subject: Re: Is easy rate-limiting available?
To: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
From: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/02/2002 07:46:34
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.