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Hi all, got a good one for ya.
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I'm about to upgrade my Internet connection from a 56k dialup to an 144k IDSL. I was just wondering if anyone had any info on some bandwidth throttling. I'd like to limit bandwidth used for services (ssh, ftpd-maybe, httpd) and apps. I'd like to be able to access my server machine remotely, wget the latest isos/rpms/tar.gzs, and still be able to route net access (online games, web, email) for my other 3 machines without any one service/app/machine hogging all my bandwidth.
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I think I can do this with iptables (never looked into it much) or maybe even xinetd? (never looked into it at all), but I'm not sure how intelligent these are, or if they're even the right apps to do it. I'd hate to download an iso at 20kps when nothing else is accessing the net, and I'd hate to allow a limit to ftp when I'm the only one who will ever use it and that could at max be 2-3 times a month.
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Well those are the key points I'm looking for answers on. Any advice, info (man, howto, etc), or horror/success stories would be great. I got about a month before I get hooked up I'm sure, so I got some good reading/planning time on my hands.
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Thanks again in advance.
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Chris Frederick
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p.s. In case it matters, the server routing all this is a AMD Athlon 800Mhz, 384M SDRAM (might be 512M, I keep forgetting), running Mandrake 8.2 that may change to 9.0, or even to Red Hat or Slackware depending on how much time I have to configure it.
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