scripsit Paul E Condon: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 03:14:20PM -0000, Colin Davis wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am in a small office that uses an adsl connection for its internet > > access. We have a debian box with exim installed to send mail. When > > a large email is send (anything over 1mb really) it hogs all of the > > upstream, disconnects my ssh sessions etc and making using the > > internet impossible until the email has gone. > > > > I am looking for a way to limit exims use of the available > > bandwidth. Anybody got any ideas for a quick fix? > > > > Any help much appreciated - its driving me mad :-) > > > > Col. > > Look at www.bandwidtharbitrator.com. Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator is > software developed by a guy in the town where I live (Lafayette, CO). > He made a presentation at a local LUG ~6m ago. He seemed to know what > he was doing, and interested in helping small users. Its not free, but > its not expensive, and you can try it for free. I think his deal is > that you pay for the User Manual.
It seems strange to me that there doesn't seem to be a free tool for this. I've had similar problems just with scp over cable modem -- I don't care if it takes it an hour to make the transfer, but I don't want to lose my ssh sessions completely while it copies... Bandwidth management stuff I've come across seems to focus more on keeping one machine from hogging a network rather than keeping one process from hogging eth0 on a single machine... Are we missing something obvious? -- Pax vobiscum; pax cum omnibus. . Thanasis Kinias tkinias at asu.edu Doctoral Student, Department of History Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
