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

[RedShift]

Phillip Smith wrote:
>> *anon_max_rate*
>>    The maximum data transfer rate permitted, in bytes per second, for
>>    anonymous clients.
>>
>>
>> Good luck!
> 
> Ah, I didn't think about doing it in the daemon... That would
> definitely be easiest, I think I'll do it this way! :)
> 
> 
>> You don't need tc to do traffic shaping, you can use iptables as well for
>> this. It is more primitive though, but for simple tasks it's easier than
>> using tc.
> 
> Now I'm curious... Everything I've seen points to using tc to be able
> to rate-limit in kbps... The only rate-limiting I know you can do in
> iptables by itself is packets-per-timeframe (second, minute etc)
> limiting?
> 
> 

You can use hashlimit for it. And how is rate limiting in kbps not the same as packets-per-timeframe? It's exactly the same.


Glenn