On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 10:44, Tucker, David wrote: > All, > I would like to download the SUSE 8.2 disto from mirrors.usc.edu. > I'm stuck with a phone modem at home, so I would like to do it here at > work. There is no company policy against this, and I'd like to keep > it that way. So I would like to do this in the nicest way possible. > > We have world wide offices that use our servers 24/7, so simply > setting a cron job at 2AM doesn't really help. What I really need is > a way to limit the bandwidth of the FTP client locally. Any ideas? > The simpler the better.
I've used trickle[1] to manage bandwidth. Works great. To limit to say 15KB/s you'd do this: $ trickle -d 15 wget -c http://server/path/to/file Corey 1. http://www.monkey.org/~marius/trickle/ ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
