Re: Limiting my own network throughput

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:04:07 +0200
Alan McKinnon <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

Here at work we have a fairly fat network pipe, shared amongst 100+
people. The local BOFH would prefer it if I didn't max out the pipe with
daily updates :-) He's a friend and doesn't want micro-manage the
network so he trusts me to do the right thing .

I can live with updates coming through at 2kB/sec or thereabouts and
mail/web coming through at full speed. What would be the easiest way to
implement this kind of network throttling where it's still under my
control?

I haven't tried this, but it looks as if it might be useful:

$ apt-cache search bandwidth shaping
( a few results among which... )

$ apt-cache show iprelay

[various snips]

Description: User-space bandwidth shaping TCP proxy daemon
iprelay can shape the TCP traffic forwarded through it to a specified
bandwidth and allow this bandwidth to be changed on-the-fly.
--

Here's what the author would like you to know: ip_relay sprang from
the fact that I use a modem for home Internet connectivity, and once
a large download has started, other Internet activities: telnet,
surfing, VOIP, are largely useless. With ip_relay, you can suddenly
decide to shape your downloads to 50% of your available bandwidth,
and make use of the more interactive applications.

HTH , and all those conventional sentiments :)

Peter

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