Generically throttling any application's network usage?

humbletech99 · 04-09-2008, 09:40 AM

I'm looking for a way to generically throttle any network application's bandwidth usage from the perspective of a local app on the same machine. I know this can be done on Windows via 3rd party apps like Netlimiter, but does something similar exist for Linux?

Preferably without a gui as I want to run this on servers (that rightfully have no gui) to throttle transfers running from the same host out to another host at a remote location, going over a pipe that I cannot afford to flood.

ARC1450 · 04-09-2008, 04:39 PM

I've seen it, I just don't remember exactly where.

I think you can hit up http://www.google.com/linux and put in the terms "limit network bandwidth kernel" and get an answer. I vaguely remember you can attain throttling with a recompiled kernel and a few options ticked.