Subject: Re: Is easy rate-limiting available?
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Diana Eichert <deichert@wrench.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/02/2002 09:02:14
Hmm, doesn't the NetBSD ftp server support rate-limiting?
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> 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.
>