From dittrich@cac.washington.edu Thu Jun 15 11:12:34 2000 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id LAA35838 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 11:12:33 -0700 Received: from mxout1.cac.washington.edu (mxout1.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.5]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id LAA21247 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 11:12:33 -0700 Received: from shivax2.cac.washington.edu (shivax2.cac.washington.edu [140.142.100.20]) by mxout1.cac.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id LAA31683 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 11:12:33 -0700 Received: from localhost (dittrich@localhost) by shivax2.cac.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id LAA01755 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 11:12:32 -0700 Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 11:12:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Dave Dittrich To: UW Linux Group Subject: Re: ethernet speed limit In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > Is there any way limit ethernet speeds? Basically what I want to do is > alias my ethernet interface (ie eth0:1, eth0:2, etc) then have eth0:x > limited to 256kbps. TIA. One thought. Total throughput is limited by the slowest link. Set up PPP over serial ports (where rate can be controlled), then force routes to traverse the PPP link. (Details are left as an excercise for the reader. ;) -- Dave Dittrich Computing & Communications dittrich@cac.washington.edu Client Services http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich University of Washington PGP key http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/pgpkey.txt Fingerprint FE 97 0C 57 08 43 F3 EB 49 A1 0C D0 8E 0C D0 BE C8 38 CC B5 .