Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Is it somehow possible to limit OpenSSH client's bandwidth? > > Today I was copying data (whole block devices) over internet > with: > > dd if=/dev/san10/xen1 | bzip2 -9 | ssh 192.168.15.46 "bzip2 -d | dd of=/dev/san18/xen1" > > > It worked fine, but the latency of other connections was horrible, > because the above connection ate almost all bandwidth available. > > > scp has this option: > > -l limit > Limits the used bandwidth, specified in Kbit/s. > > But it looks that it's not available to ssh. > > I wouldn't like to use 3rd party programs or system settings, > because they are not portable, sometimes require root privileges > and are just additional burden for a one-off task. > You can also look at the pv command, take a look at man pv it has a very nice limiting function build for these kind of things. Best regards, Jelle
