On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 04:53:06 -0400 Brian York <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is their a way to restrict the amount of network and other resource > usage that a user on a remote computer can use? Several: 1. http://www.chronox.de/ Uses kernel features 2. http://snad.ncsl.nist.gov/itg/nistnet/ This can be run on a separate box, or on and "end-node" and setup to restrict traffic. It's intended to test the impact of network restrictions and degradations; but should work to emulate a 200kbps link. 3. Use Python's SocketServer.Forking{TCP,UDP}Server modules and insert a delay between in/out (semi-kidding... hopefully, you didn't need to read this far... :^) HTH, Pierre > Reason: I am on a lan at my college and i share 30 GB of music and 10 GB > > fo software. During a typical day i can be sending 500KB/s of data. I > would rather this be around 200KB/s because it kills my connection and > can slow down my hard drive (only one HD would be fine if i had another > one). for my shares i use a guest account "pcguest" so reduing resorce > usage is only going to affect people connected to me to download music. > > Thanks > Brian > > >
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