On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 23:41:57 -0800 Steve Lamb <grey@dmiyu.org> wrote: > Ok, this is bugging me immensely. I'm getting tired of applications on my > linux box hogging all my BW. Unfortunately most of 'em haven't wised up to > the whole self-limiting of bandwidth. The primary culprit right now is > Apache. Every time Google or Yahoo (normally at the same time) decide to pull > links they hit some pictures I have (which are lots) and the rest of my > connections go to hell. I could limit them with robot.txt, for example, but > that's not what I want to do. I want to be able to tell Apache (and other > non-self-limiting programs) "you get this much, NO MORE!" > > Yeah, I could do it with iptables and a whole slew of deep magic. Now, I > have the very same problem on Windows. Any time one of my games decides to > patch they just happy snarf all bandwidth and crap on the rest of the network. > Enter a nice utility called Netlimiter. I open it up. I tell it "such and > such program gets x and y bandwidth and no more!" It works. I'm happy. No > deep magic involved. Any similar utility, even if it is just a front for > iptables, for Debian? google is your friend. http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/77 might help too. A > > -- > Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your > PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. > -------------------------------+--------------------------------------------- > >
Attachment:
pgpoIO4Xjm4AW.pgp
Description: PGP signature