[TriLUG] Throttling SFTP bandwidth

[Greg Brown]

What kind of firewall are you using?  M0nowall, and many others, have  
traffic shaping/data prioritization built in.  In m0n0 you can set  
automatic rules to share bandwidth evenly or you can explicitly state  
which kinds of traffic have a higher or lower priority on the network.   
Fun stuff.

Greg

On Mar 7, 2005, at 10:26 AM, Christopher L Merrill 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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