Regarding client side rate limiting, I have tried trickle once. Does anyone know any better rate limiters client side ? Something like dummynet in FreeBSD. iptables is there but anything simpler would do. ------------- Raghavendra On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 3:47 PM, RedShift <redshift@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Phillip Smith wrote: > >> *anon_max_rate* >>> The maximum data transfer rate permitted, in bytes per second, for >>> anonymous clients. >>> >>> >>> Good luck! >>> >> >> Ah, I didn't think about doing it in the daemon... That would >> definitely be easiest, I think I'll do it this way! :) >> >> >> You don't need tc to do traffic shaping, you can use iptables as well for >>> this. It is more primitive though, but for simple tasks it's easier than >>> using tc. >>> >> >> Now I'm curious... Everything I've seen points to using tc to be able >> to rate-limit in kbps... The only rate-limiting I know you can do in >> iptables by itself is packets-per-timeframe (second, minute etc) >> limiting? >> >> >> > You can use hashlimit for it. And how is rate limiting in kbps not the same > as packets-per-timeframe? It's exactly the same. > > > Glenn >
