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

[Raghavendra Prabhu]

Regarding  client side rate limiting, I have tried trickle once. Does anyone
know any better rate limiters client side ?  Something like dummynet in
FreeBSD. iptables is there but anything simpler would do.


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Raghavendra

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 3:47 PM, RedShift <redshift at pandora.be> wrote:

> 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
>