[TriLUG] Throttling SFTP bandwidth

[Mark Freeze]

The package was ProFTP and the file was the proftpd.conf in /etc.   I
hope this helps and if you cant figure it out on your ftp package, you
might could switch over to ProFTP.  It worked great for me!

Regards,
Mark.



On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 10:49:50 -0500, Mark Freeze <mfreeze at gmail.com> wrote:
> You might want to check the configuration file for your software
> package. I remember when I worked for a company in Alabama and I had
> the same problem in reverse.  I had internal clients that were
> downloading files from the server and were being limited to about 50K.
> Actually slower internally than you could download via the internet.
> Finally I found the speed limiting statement on one of the packages
> configuration files.  I erased it, restarted the service and was
> operating at full speed.  I'm not sure what FTP package I was using,
> but it was whatever secure ftp package Mandrake includes with their
> distro.  I'll try making a call today to see what package it was and
> what file we changed.
> 
> Regards,
> Mark.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 10:26:12 -0500, Christopher L Merrill
> <chris at webperformanceinc.com> wrote:
> > When we upload a release (>150M) to our server, the machine from which
> > the upload is initiated (RHEL clone) seems to hog all the bandwidth in
> > the office and prevents other machines from accessing the internet.
> >
> > Is there a relatively easy way to throttle the SFTP process to limit
> > it's bandwidth consumption?  I know it's been discussed here before,
> > but all the solutions I recall required some fairly involved IP tables
> > work (and also had more complex requirements - such as throttling all
> > internet protocols, etc).
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > FYI, the computer in question is on a Netgear switch behind two Linksys
> > routers - one provides our VPN and the other provides QOS for our IP
> > phones (seems to be working since phones worked ok).
> >
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