[ILUG] traffic shaping

[Paul Jakma]

On Tue, 9 May 2000, John P. Looney wrote:

>  How hard would it be to set something up to limit any FTP connections
> that I make from my desktop to a max of 4kb/sec or something ?
> 
>  I like making use of mirrors, but when I do, it floods our poor little
> leased line - so something to throttle it would be good..
> 

2.2 has the 'shaper' device. But i doubt it's fine-grained enough to only
be applied to ftp. 2.3 has a lot more interesting stuff in it for this
kind of thing, check out the HOWTO's ({ip,route,iptables}-HOWTO??).

but the quickest hack is to set IPv4 TOS's using ipchains. (see the
ipchains-HOWTO or README in /usr/doc/ipchains*)

--paulj

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