[plug] Bandwidth limiting

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Thu Jul 29 13:46:13 WST 2004


Craig Ringer wrote:

> QoS services on a gateway machine, not the endpoint, as QoS abilities 
> incoming data under Linux are limited or nonexistent. (Why, I don't 
> know. What's the difference between drop on forward and drop on input, 
> really?)

Are you sure they're nonexistent?  I have a script that I created by
half-understanding the voodoo on lartc.org which throttles incoming
data from a certain host... I'd be surprised if you couldn't do more
if you were good with dribbly candles.

Cameron.





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