[arch-general] ftp.archlinux.org rate limiting

[Phillip Smith]

2009/11/23 Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar>:
> Phillip Smith wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Could someone share the details of how the 50kbps rate-limit is
>> implemented on ftp.archlinux.org?
>>
>> I know Google gives me plenty of results for rate-limiting with
>> iptables and tc but I've never had much success with tc, and the
>> ftp.archlinux.org rate-limiting seems to work perfectly... So why try
>> reinventing the wheel? :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> ~p
>>
>>
> Hi
>
> probably using this (see man vsftpd.conf) ;)
>
> *anon_max_rate*
>    The maximum data transfer rate permitted, in bytes per second, for
>    anonymous clients.

Further to this, I've got rate limiting on HTTP working too using
mod_bw which I've added to the AUR. Here's the config in httpd.conf
for anyone else that's interested:

<IfModule mod_bw.c>
	  BandwidthModule On
	  ForceBandWidthModule On
	  # Files with these extensions, larger than 1kb limited to 50kbps
	  LargeFileLimit .test 1 50000
	  LargeFileLimit .pkg.tar.gz 1 50000
</IfModule>

Works a treat! :D