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Re: Bandwidth control on FTP



On Wednesday 13 February 2002 13:25 pm, Greg Hunt wrote:
> I'm not sure I completely understand your question, you want to let users
> with faster connections have higher limits? How are you going to know their
> connection speed? If what you are looking for is a ftp server that lets you
> specify different rates for different users, then try NcFTPd
> (www.ncftpd.com). It's commercial, but reasonably priced and you can try it
> out before you buy it.

No, not at all what I want to do.  :-)  Sorry I wasn't clear on that.

I just want to rate-cap my FTP service at an arbitrary speed (say, 1.0Mbps) 
so it doesn't use all of my T1.

If I understand the ProFTPd documentation, it says use RateReadBPS in 
conjunction with max users.  So, to limit to 1.0Mbps use, I'd do something 
like:

 RateReadBPS	100000
 MaxClients	10

But that will limit 10 users to 100000bps each, total of 1.0Mbps.  That is 
not what I want.  If only one user is connected, I want that user to be able 
to DL at 1.0Mbps (obviously, if he is on a fast enough pipe).

Am I completely misunderstanding RateReadBPS? 
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