[plug] Load-limiting ?

[cthart at gbs.com.au]

Trevor & Garth,

I thought this was available in the 2.0 series already
-- look for "traffic shaper".

Cheers,

Colin








Trevor Phillips <phillips at central.murdoch.edu.au> on 16/08/99 11:28:28

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Garth Atkinson wrote:
>
> Hi Trevor
>
> I saw a press release about two months ago discussing this and how to
> set it up on a linux platform. It was all very new (beta) and a bit
> broken from memory. Apparently it is quite hard (technically) to get
> working on a 2.2 kernel (due to kernel design and lack of hooks), but
> this will change with version 2.4 I think. Try freshmeat for starters.
> I'm pretty sure the software was GPL.

Hmmm. I couldn't find anything. Can you remember what category it was, or a
name?

Maybe I'll just wait for 2.4.... ^_^

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