[sclug] Throttling ftp proxy

[James Wyper]

I think there's something you can do in iptables or similar to give
certain types of traffic (e.g. to/from port 80) higher priority than
other types.  I keep meaning to research this further as I have a
similar requirement (want to run Bittorrent without hosing my ability
to websurf - I can hobble the upload rate on BT but that's a waste when
the computer is otherwise idle most of the time).

Has anyone else had any success with this sort of thing?

James.

--- Derek M Jones <derek at knosof.co.uk> wrote:

> All,
> 
> I am after a throttling ftp proxy for Linux.
> Does anybody have any suggestions?
> 
> The only one I have managed to find so far is frox.
> 
> Ideally I would like to be able to change the rate
> dynamicly (eg, lower it when other web activity is
> going on and increase it to top speed overnight).
> 
> `tnftp' (formerly lukemftp) is an ftp client that allows
> the rate to be set via the command line.  I am using gftp
> which is much more flexible.
> 
> -- 
> Derek M. Jones                              tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667
> Knowledge Software Ltd                      mailto:derek at knosof.co.uk
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