[plug] Simple bandwidth throttling

[Leon Blackwell]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 10:33:28AM +0800, Matthew Lambie wrote:
> Does anyone know of a simple app (if it's packaged for Ubuntu you get
> cred++) that will allow me to throttle bandwidth in a similar way to
> wget's "--limit=20k" capabilities? Perhaps I can pipe the dist-upgrade
> command to it with a limit flag? 

You might like to look at trickle:

  http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle

(this is packaged for ubuntu/hoary -- do I get my bonus points now?  :)


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