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Re: TCPD with traffic shaping capabilities?



On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 10:44:24AM +0300, Dmitry Litovchenko wrote:
> Hello, Debian world!
> 
> Does anybody know how to limit incomming (and maybe outgoing) traffic
> on tcpd-wrapped service. Some kind of tunnels or queues, I think.
> 
> Yes, yes, I know traffic shaper works only on outgoing traffic. Yes, I
> have this. But also I have incoming traffic to shape and just don't
> know how to do that. While squid does this well with delay_pools,
> sendmail (for example) can receive unneeded mails with 300MByte game
> all night away. Okay, I have set mail limit to 2MB per mail, but two
> nights later situation repeated, when I had full pool of unsent mails
> (mass mail) which unsuccessfully tried to deliver all the night. Again
> traffic load was totally up and while we are paying for traffic
> percentage per month I do not want to have my load graphs 100% up.
Look at the Adv-Routing HOWTO, it's about shaping with 2.2.x/2.4.x
kernels using iproute2. (iproute2 is packaged, might be named
iproute). for shaping incoming stuff, look at the ingress qdisc
> 
> Maybe tcpd has some options (I haven't found any yet) or another tcpd
> wrapper?
not afaik....

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