On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 03:29:27PM -0400, Brian York wrote: > Is their a way to restrict the amount of network and other resource > usage that a user on a remote computer can use? > > 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.
Try to consider linux QOS (Quality of Service) http://qos.ittc.ukans.edu/howto/ http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Bandwidth-Limiting-HOWTO/cbq.html
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