On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 19:51 +0300, Alexander Kirillov wrote: > >>Could you please suggest > >>something I could use to limit transfer rates > >>to/from selected ports. > >>Need to simulate dial-up connections locally. > > > > You can > > - use trickle, which is a userspace solution using preloading for glibc's > > networking functions (does work on a per-application base similar to > > "nice"), > > - use netfilter to route relevant connections through a shaper device > > (which is a - AFAIK - experimental kernel feature, > > - use "tc" and the QoS-Kernel-Features. > > > > I'd suggest trickle if the other solutions would mean that you'd have to > > recompile your kernel. It's very easy to use. > > Thanks a lot Hans, > I don't mind recompiling the kernel and would rather use a generic tool > useful for system administration later down the road. > Looks like tc is the way to go. >
I use TC to control traffic and to make sure specific traffic gets a guaranteed bandwidth. Effective actually -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 17:26:09 up 8:11, 6 users, load average: 0.19, 0.30, 0.31 -- [email protected] mailing list
