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Date:      Tue, 23 Apr 1996 10:18:09 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
To:        wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Cc:        ishort@pcm.co.za, questions@freebsd.org, isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Bandwidth limited FTP server
Message-ID:  <199604231518.KAA29533@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
In-Reply-To: <9604231504.AA07538@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Apr 23, 96 11:04:30 am

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> <<On Tue, 23 Apr 1996 08:09:12 -0500 (CDT), Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> said:
> 
> > The easiest way to limit bandwidth is to insert a sleep() call after write()
> > in your favorite network utility (here, ftpd).  Limiting the number of users
> > is trivial, most enhanced ftpd's will do that automatically, based on config
> > file.
> 
> This won't work in the standard ftpd because we write the entire file
> in a single call to write(2).

Detail.  It can be broken up...

> Maybe by the end of this year we'll manage to make a public release of
> ISPS and then you can configure a link-share class for FTP data.... (I
> wouldn't hold my breath, though, as trying to get code out of my boss
> is like trying to get code out of Van Jacobson.)

We need all the nifty tools we can get.

... Joe

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