also sprach Colin Watson (on Wed, 05 Sep 2001 11:36:24AM -0500): > Can you describe how this package differs from shaperd? > > Package: shaperd > Description: A user-mode traffic shaper for tcp-ip networks. > Shaperd is a user-mode program that can shape traffic passing through > a Linux box. As it runs as a normal daemon, some kind of packet-forwarding > mechanism is needed. This can be done with the BSD divert sockets patch > for Linux 2.2, or with netfilter's built-in libipq under Linux 2.4. > > (There's shaper too, although that's kernel-space.) > > I don't mean to discourage you from packaging this; I'm just curious as > to what it brings. well, it doesn't need netfilter or anything. you basically say something like iprelay -b 2048 10873:ftp.us.debian.org:873 and now 0.0.0.0:10873 is a port through which you can access ftp.us.debian.org:873 with at most 2 kbps going either way. it sports daemon mode and multiple such "forwarders" per process. martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck -- every nonzero finite dimensional inner product space has an orthonormal basis.
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