Re: nice bandwidth usage

On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:05:43 +0000, Tristan Miller wrote:

This sort of thing would be very useful to use in conjunction with
software updaters, BitTorrent clients, large rsync jobs, etc.

There are two approaches to this problem.

You can use eg a BitTorrent client which allows you to adjust the
bandwidth usage eg Deluge or Transmission, the latter even having the
feature of a button to click to go to a Turtle mode for when you
just need most of the bandwidth for immediate use by something else,
and eg for rsync use the --bwlimit=KBPS command line flag.

The other approach is to use QOS tuning on your router or iptables
implementation. See the iptables manual page for the CLASSIFY
directive.

This is rather more complicated and laborious to implement but is
the way to "enforce" limits on recalcitrant users whether or not
they implement the "voluntary" approach via the program settings
mentioned above.
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