Re: Bandwidth limits??

Bryn Paul Arnold Jones (bpaj@gytha.demon.co.uk)
Sat, 19 Oct 1996 12:28:57 +0100 (BST)


On Sat, 19 Oct 1996, Alan Cox wrote:

> >
> > 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
>

This could be done as part of PPP, you just need to define the bwcp/...,
get it added to a rfc, write a Linux implamentation and wait (could have
to wait some time before the other end get's it tho ;)

Bryn

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