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Date:      Wed, 31 Mar 2004 17:48:54 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Cc:        LittleSunshine <little_sunshine_1998@yahoo.com>
Subject:   Re: scp limit transfer per month
Message-ID:  <200403311748.54843.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20040330174123.48425.qmail@web13807.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20040330174123.48425.qmail@web13807.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 03:11, LittleSunshine wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm searching for a way to limit a user's scp download
> to xy/z-bytes per month/week/whatever. I found
> something about limiting the bandwidth in man ssh,
> ssh_config and scp.
>
> A friend of mine said, that he doesn't know a way for
> Linux but heard that there's an easy way in FreeBSD.
> (But he doesn't know how.)

Dummy net can limit bandwidth pretty easily.

You define a pipe and then specify an ipfw rule that feeds packets through it.

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