[Chester LUG] Question: Emulating a leased line

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Stuart Burns wrote:
> Thanks to David's suggestion, we are looking at a RSYNC with GWAVA 
> Reload (For the novell mail system) and we are getting some nice beefy 
> 12TB boxes if it all works out ;)
>
> However, I need to test  how rsync will work over a 2MB leased  line. 
> I do believe there is a way to turn down a 100Mbit link to a 2MB link. 
> Does anyone know how to do it ?
>
> Cheers
>
> Stuart
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Can you not throttle all traffic through a network interface via the 
kernel or perhaps some sort of QoS (Quality of Service) application? 
Maybe even at the router/managed switch level?