Re: Bandwidth limits??
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 19 Oct 1996 00:46:18 +0100 (BST)
> Is there a way to limit the bandwidth of one program? I have a 28.8k
> PPP connection; it would be nice to be able to limit an FTP connection
> to 75% or less of the bandwidth so that interactive performance
> (remote email & netnews browsing) could stay high...
>
> Something equivalent to the "nice" command would be nice :-)
> Like: bwnice [-p maximum percent of bandwidth] [command [args...]]
Thats hard to do as you need to limit it at the source end of your PPP link,
not your own personal machine