Re: Bandwidth control on FTP

[Bart-Jan Vrielink <bartjan@vrielink.net>]

On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 19:57, Michael Merritt wrote:
> I've got some files on an anonymous FTP server that I'd like to open up for
> download to users of some online forums.  But I don't want to let them
> completely suck my bandwidth dry.  I'm running proftpd 1.2.4.
> 
> I see in the documentation there are bandwidth limits like this:
> RateReadBPS                     81920
> RateReadFreeBytes               5120
> RateReadHardBPS                 on
> 
> But that will limit each client to n bps, regardless if they are on 56k or
> T3.  I don't want to do this; instead, I want to allow say 1Mbps of bandwidth
> for upload and let whoever has the big pipes get the fast downloads.

Can't you use the kernel traffic shaper for this ??

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Tot ziens,

Bart-Jan